Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema
Online ISBN:
9789882207028
Print ISBN:
9789622099722
Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
Book
Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema
Published:
1 June 2009
Online ISBN:
9789882207028
Print ISBN:
9789622099722
Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
Cite
Choi, Jinhee, and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (eds), Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (Hong Kong , 2009; online edn, Hong Kong Scholarship Online, 14 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789622099722.001.0001, accessed 15 Mar. 2024.
Abstract
This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. Chapters highlight common themes including technology, digital media, adolescent audience sensibilities, transnational co-productions, pan-Asian marketing techniques, and variations on good vs. evil evident.
Keywords:
Asian horror films, national contexts, multidirectional dialogues, Hollywood, Asian cultures
Subject
Film
Contents
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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I Contesting Genres: From J-horror to “Asia Extreme”
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1
J-horror: New Media’s Impact on Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
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2
A Cinema of Girlhood: Sonyeo Sensibility and the Decorative Impulse in the Korean Horror Cinema
Jinhee Choi
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3
Inner Senses and the Changing Face of Hong Kong Horror Cinema
Kevin Heffernan
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4
The Pan-Asian Outlook of The Eye
Adam Knee
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5
The Art of Branding: Tartan “Asia Extreme” Films
Chi-Yun Shin
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1
J-horror: New Media’s Impact on Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema
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II Contextualizing Horror: Film Movement, National History, and Taboo
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III Iconography of Horror: Personal Belongings, Bodies, and Violence
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9
That Unobscure Object of Desire and Horror: On Some Uncanny Things in Recent Korean Horror Films
Hyun-suk Seo
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10
“Tell the Kitchen That There's Too Much Buchu in the Dumpling”: Reading Park Chan-wook's “Unknowable” Oldboy
Kyung Hyun Kim
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11
A Politics of Excess: Violence and Violation in Miike Takashi’s Audition
Robert Hyland
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9
That Unobscure Object of Desire and Horror: On Some Uncanny Things in Recent Korean Horror Films
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End Matter
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