Japanese Horror Cinema.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Japanese Horror Cinema -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I HISTORY, TRADITION AND JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film -- 2 The Nightmare of Romantic Passion in Three Classic Japanese Horror Films -- 3 Case Study: Nakata Hideo's Ringu and Ringu 2 -- PART 2 GENDER, TERROR AND THE 'AVENGING SPIRIT' MOTIF IN JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA -- Introduction -- 4 Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Social Class and Global Culture in Miike Tasashi's Audition -- 5 Anime Horro and its Audience: 3x3 Eyes and Vampire Princess Miyu -- 6 Case Study: Ishii Takashi's Freeze Me and the Rape-Revenge Film -- PART 3 NATIONAL ANXIETIES AND CULTURAL FEARS IN JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA -- Introduction -- 7 Metal-Morphosis: Post-Industrial Crisis and the Tormented Body in the Tetsuo Films -- 8 Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and Body Horror in Sato Histayasu's Naked Blood -- 9 Pinnochio 964, Death Power and the Post-Human Condition -- 10 Case Study: Battle Royale's Apocalyptic Millennial Warning -- PART 4 JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA AND THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF FEAR -- Introduction -- 11. Arashi Ga Oka (Onimaru): The Sound of the World Turned Inside Out -- 12 Ringing the Changes: Cult Distincts and Cultural Differences in US Fans' Reading of Japanese Horror Cinema -- 13 Case Study: Cinematic Hybridity in Shimizu Takashi's Ju-on: The Grudge -- Filmography: Japanese Horror Films and their DVD Availbility in the UK and US -- Bibliography -- Index.

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