Valerie Wee

Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Japanese horror films and their American remakes. Focusing on the textual transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boundaries, this study probes the underlying socio-cultural, aesthetic, thematic and narrative complexities that organize each culture's representations of horror / the supernatural to encourage a richer appreciation of these films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781138653870
• ISBN-10: 113865387X
• Artikelnr.: 44558215

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor Valerie Wee teaches film and media studies in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Horror, The Horror... 1.Haunting Specters: A History of
Seeing Ghosts in Japanese and American Horror Films 2. Hollywood and Japan,
Comparing Supernatural Constructions: Cultural Ideologies, Social
Anxieties, and Aesthetic Tendencies 3.Terrifying Images: Visual Aesthetics
and Ways of Seeing in Ringu and The Ring 4."Oh, Mother!": Single Mothers
and Abandoned Daughters in Honoguarai mizu no soko kara and Dark Water 5.
"Father Knows Best?" Patriarchal Anxieties and Familial Dysfunction in
Ju-On and The Grudge 6. The End of the World as We Know It: Apocalyptic
Visions in Kairo and Pulse 7. (Post-)Modern Anxieties, Techno-Horror, and
Technophobia in Chakushin Ari and One Missed Call 8. Conclusion