Japanese horror films and their American remakes : translating fear, adapting culture
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Japanese horror films and their American remakes : translating fear, adapting culture
(Routledge advances in film studies, 27)
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-244) and index
Filmography: p. [245]-248
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Ring (2002)-Hollywood's remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)-marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boundaries. Through close readings of a range of Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes, this study addresses the social, cultural, aesthetic and generic features of each national cinema's approach to and representation of horror, within the subgenre of the ghost story, tracing convergences and divergences in the films' narrative trajectories, aesthetic style, thematic focus and ideological content. In comparing contemporary Japanese horror films with their American adaptations, this book advances existing studies of both the Japanese and American cinematic traditions, by:
illustrating the ways in which each tradition responds to developments in its social, cultural and ideological milieu; and,
examining Japanese horror films and their American remakes through a lens that highlights cross-cultural exchange and bilateral influence.
The book will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Horror, The Horror... 1.Haunting Specters: A History of Seeing Ghosts in Japanese and American Horror Films 2. Hollywood and Japan, Comparing Supernatural Constructions: Cultural Ideologies, Social Anxieties, and Aesthetic Tendencies 3.Terrifying Images: Visual Aesthetics and Ways of Seeing in Ringu and The Ring 4."Oh, Mother!": Single Mothers and Abandoned Daughters in Honoguarai mizu no soko kara and Dark Water 5. "Father Knows Best?" Patriarchal Anxieties and Familial Dysfunction in Ju-On and The Grudge 6. The End of the World as We Know It: Apocalyptic Visions in Kairo and Pulse 7. (Post-)Modern Anxieties, Techno-Horror, and Technophobia in Chakushin Ari and One Missed Call 8. Conclusion
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