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List of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Theory
1. Theoretical Intersections: The Japanese Horror Genre and National, Transnational and Global Flows
2. Theoretical Transformations: The Perspectives of Gilles Deleuze
Part Two: Case-Studies
3. The “Any-Space-Whatever", “Becoming-Woman" and Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
4. Auteurship, Adaptation and the Molecularity of Audition (1999)
5. Kairo (2001): Cosmicism and “Becoming-Machine"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rachel Barraclough is an associate lecturer in media and film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and a lecturer in sociology at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She received her PhD from the University of Lincoln, UK, in 2018. Her research interests lie in the horror genre, East Asian cinema and Deleuzian philosophy.
Summary
Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanalysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze.
In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global networks between industries, directors and audiences can be considered. Furthermore, understandings of how key horror tropes and motifs apply to these films (and others more broadly), such as the idea of the “monstrous-feminine”, can be transformed, allowing these models to become more flexible.
Foreword
An analysis of Japanese horror films from the 1990s and 2000s using Deleuzian concepts.
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This book provides an important intervention into the scholarship on Japanese horror by avoiding a well-worn hermeneutic approach to cinematic analysis, examining, instead, the many interconnections that develop between the bodies of audience members, films, and nations as cinematic works are created and viewed worldwide. In so doing, this study brings a fresh perspective to some of the iconic works of the genre.
