TY  - BOOK
AU  - McRoy,Jay
TI  - Nightmare Japan: contemporary Japanese horror cinema 
T2  - Contemporary cinema,
SN  - 9781435613485
AV  - PN1995.9.H6 M37 2008eb
U1  - 791.43/6164 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York, NY
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Horror films
KW  - Japan
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Films d'horreur
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index; Nightmare Japan; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'New Waves', Old Terrors and Emerging Fears; Chapter One: Guinea Pigs and Entrails: Cultural Transformations and Body Horror in Japanese Torture Film; Chapter Two: Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and Body Horror in Sato Hisayasu's Naked Blood and Muscle; Chapter Three: Ghosts of the Present, Spectres of the Past: the kaidan and the Haunted Family in the Cinema of Nakata Hideo and Shimizu Takashi; Chapter Four: A Murder of Doves: Youth Violence and the Rites of Passing in Contemporaray Japanese Horror CinemaChapter Five: Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion's Suicide Circle, Higuchinsky's Uzumaki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Pulse; Chapter Six: New Terrors, Emerging Trends and the Future of Japanese Horror; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
N2  - 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 Ka©ro [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 redefin
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