Description
Product ID: | 9781501368295 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze |
Subtitle: | Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought |
Authors: | Author: Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Film: styles and genres, Philosophy, Film: styles & genres, Philosophy, Japan, c 1990 to c 2000, c 2000 to c 2010 |
Description: | 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-02-10 |