Japanese Horror Culture - Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games (Hardcover)

Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films such as Hideo Nakata's The Ring (Ringu, 1998) or Takashi Miike's Audition (Odishon, 1999), Japanese horror has been a staple of both film studies and Western culture. Scholars and fans alike throughout the world have been keen to observe and analyze the popularity and roots of the phenomenon that took the horror scene by storm, producing a corpus of cultural artefacts that still resonate today. Further, Japanese horror is symptomatic of its social and cultural context, celebrating the fantastic through female ghosts, mutated lizards, posthuman bodies, and other figures. Encompassing a range of genres and media including cinema, manga, video games, and anime, this book investigates and analyzes Japanese horror in relation with trauma studies (including the figure of Godzilla), the non-human (via grotesque bodies), and hybridity with Western narratives (including the linkages with Hollywood), thus illuminating overlooked aspects of this cultural phenomenon.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Lexington Books Horror Studies
Release date:	November 2021
Editors:	Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns • Subashish Bhattacharjee • Ananya Saha
Contributors:	Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns • Subashish Bhattacharjee • Calum Waddell • Barbara Greene • Bipasha Mandal • Daniel Kratky • Megan Negrych
Dimensions:	227 x 161 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-1-79364-705-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Animation Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-79364-705-4
Barcode:	9781793647054

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