The Scary Screen (eBook, PDF)

Media Anxiety in The Ring
Redaktion: Lacefield, Kristen

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, inaugurated with the 1991 publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, The Scary Screen embraces a wide variety of interpretive approaches. The contributors examine the full range of Ring-related cultural production, including novels, films, manga, and television specials, showing how the many adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the United States expose the anxieties triggered by the advent of new communications and media technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317016663
• Artikelnr.: 44782792

Autorenporträt

Kristen Lacefield is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: media anxiety and the Ring phenomenon, Kristen
Lacefield; Part I Spreading the Word: The horror of media: technology and
spirituality in the Ringu films, Anthony Enns; Tracing the transference of
a cross-cultural media virus: The evolution of Ring, Greg Wright; From gene
to meme: the rhetoric of thought contagion in Koji Suzuki's Ring cycle,
Chris Miles. Part II Loss in Translation: Cultural constructions of the
supernatural: the case of Ringu and The Ring, Valerie Wee; Video killed the
movie: cultural translation in Ringu and The Ring, Steven Rawle; 'Before
you die, you see The Ring': notes on the imminent obsolescence of VHS,
Caetlin Benson-Allott; Bleeding through, or we are living in a digital
world and I am an analog girl, Jeremy Tirrell. Part III Techno-Human
Reproductions: Techno-human infancy in Gore Verbinski's The Ring, Kimberly
Jackson; Of horse blood and TV snow: abhuman reproduction in The Ring,
Niles Tomlinson; Horrific reproductions: pathology and gender in Koji
Suzuki's Ring trilogy, D. Haque; Computer shy: Ring and the technology of
maternal longing, Douglas A. Brooks. Part IV Afterword: Haunted networks,
Jeffrey Sconce; Further reading; Index.