Japanese Horror Cinema And Deleuze

Author : Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 399 pages
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Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501368301

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Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough Pdf

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.

Author : Steven T. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319706290

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Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations by Steven T. Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501368318

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Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough Pdf

Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanlaysis 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.

Author : David Deamer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501300156

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Deleuze, Japanese Cinema and the Atom Bomb by David Deamer Pdf

Author : David Deamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441145895

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Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb by David Deamer Pdf

David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post-war Japanese cinema. Each chapter begins by focusing upon one or more of three key Deleuzian themes – image, history and thought – before going on to look at a selection of films from 1945 to the present day. These include movies by well-known directors Kurosawa Akira, Shindo Kaneto, Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei; popular and cult classics – Godzilla (1954), Akira (1988) and Tetsuo (1989); contemporary genre flicks – Ring (1998), Dead or Alive (1999) and Casshern (2004); the avant-garde and rarely seen documentaries. The author provides a series of tables to clarify the conceptual components deployed within the text, establishing a unique addition to Deleuze and cinema studies.

Author : Dominic Lash,Hoi Lun Law
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031333057

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Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism by Dominic Lash,Hoi Lun Law Pdf

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s work on cinema. In the last two decades, Deleuze's two books on film have had an enormous influence on Film Studies, profoundly affecting thinking about movement, time, history, and other topics. Theoretically ambitious and philosophically rich but clearly written by a broad range of established and emerging international film scholars, the chapters in this volume will both contribute to, and in places challenge, the vibrant field of Deleuzian film studies. Topics covered range from the relationship of Deleuze to film criticism; the role of theories of movement; and studies of works by major filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Deleuze but to anybody engaged with the close study of film and its philosophical ramifications.

Author : Jay McRoy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401205320

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Nightmare Japan by Jay McRoy Pdf

Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]), Sato Hisayasu (Muscle [1988] and Naked Blood [1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Cure [1997], Séance [2000], and Kaïro [2001]), Nakata Hideo (Ringu [1998], Ringu II [1999], and Dark Water [2002]), and Miike Takashi (Audition [1999] and Ichi the Killer [2001]) continually revisit and redefine the horror genre in both its Japanese and global contexts. In the process, these and other directors of contemporary Japanese horror film consistently contribute exciting and important new visions, from postmodern reworkings of traditional avenging spirit narratives to groundbreaking works of cinematic terror that position depictions of radical or ‘monstrous’ alterity/hybridity as metaphors for larger socio-political concerns, including shifting gender roles, reconsiderations of the importance of the extended family as a social institution, and reconceptualisations of the very notion of cultural and national boundaries.

Author : Richard J. Hand
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474448055

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Gothic Film by Richard J. Hand Pdf

This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.

Author : Anna Powell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748628780

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Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell Pdf

Using Deleuze's work on art and film, Anna Powell argues that film viewing is a form of 'altered consciousness' and the experience of viewing horror film an 'embodied event'. The book begins with a critical introduction to the key terms in Deleuzian philosophy and aesthetics.

Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781119335016

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A Companion to the Horror Film by Harry M. Benshoff Pdf

This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the latest critical approaches. Contributors include many of the finest academics working in the field, as well as exciting younger scholars Varied and comprehensive coverage, from the history of horror to broader issues of censorship, gender, and sexuality Covers both English-language and non-English horror film traditions Key topics include horror film aesthetics, theoretical approaches, distribution, art house cinema, ethnographic surrealism, and horror's relation to documentary film practice A thorough treatment of this dynamic film genre suited to scholars and enthusiasts alike

Author : David Martin-Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748650910

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Deleuze and Film by David Martin-Jones Pdf

Engages Deleuze's philosophy with a range of popular films and explores the degree to which a film's popularity impacts upon its ability to 'think' (in the manner that Deleuze described in relation to examples of the art of film in his Cinema books), and

Author : Colette Balmain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748630592

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Introduction to Japanese Horror Film by Colette Balmain Pdf

This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror cinema such as Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge. Divided thematically, the book explores key motifs such as the vengeful virgin, the demonic child, the doomed lovers and the supernatural serial killer, situating them within traditional Japanese mythology and folk-tales. The book also considers the aesthetics of the Japanese horror film, and the mechanisms through which horror is expressed at a visceral level through the use of setting, lighting, music and mise-en-scene. It concludes by considering the impact of Japanese horror on contemporary American cinema by examining the remakes of Ringu, Dark Water and Ju-On: The Grudge.The emphasis is on accessibility, and whilst the book is primarily marketed towards film and media students, it will also be of interest to anyone interested in Japanese horror film, cultural mythology and folk-tales, cinematic aesthetics and film theory.

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793647061

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Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha Pdf

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 (Ôdishon, 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.

Author : Raechel Dumas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319924656

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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture by Raechel Dumas Pdf

This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shōjo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

Author : Jay McRoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106018557782

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Japanese Horror Cinema by Jay McRoy Pdf

A critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last 50 years, this study provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.