Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horror cinema. Neither a conventional film history nor a thematic survey of Japanese horror cinema, this study offers a transnational analysis of selected films from new angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of the genre, including sound design, framing techniques, and lighting, as well as the slow attack and long release times of J-horror's slow-burn style, which have contributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Ambient Horror: From Sonic Palimpsests to Haptic Sonority in the Cinema of Kurosawa Kiyoshi.- 3. Double Trouble: Doppelgängers in Japanese Horror.- 4. Cinema Fou: Surrealist Horror from Face of Another to Gozu.- 5. In the Wake of Artaud: Cinema of Cruelty in Audition and Oldboy.- 6. Conclusion: Envelopes of Fear: The Temporality of Japanese Horror.

About the author

Steven T. Brown is Professor of Japanese Film, Transnational Cinema, and Sound Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, USA. He is author of Tokyo Cyberpunk (2010) and Theatricalities of Power(2001), editor of Cinema Anime (2006), and co-editor of Performing Japanese Women (2002).

Summary

Offers transnational analysis of selected films from new angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of the genre
Provides insightful analysis of the formal aspects of Asian horror cinema that go well beyond previous studies, including in-depth discussion of sound design, framing and cinematographic techniques, and colored lighting
Details topics relevant to students and scholars of Asian Cinema and Popular Culture, as well as Transnational Media and Cultural Studies

Product details

• Authors: Steven T Brown, Steven T. Brown
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319889696
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988969-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 209 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 468 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 330 p. 62 illus., 49 illus. in color.
• Series: East Asian Popular Culture; East Asian Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Genre, B, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Motion pictures, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies, Audio-Visual Culture, Film: styles and genres, Motion pictures—Asia, Asian Film and TV, Asian Cinema and TV, Global Cinema and TV, Global Film and TV