Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations (eBook) von Steven T. Brown

1. Introduction.- 2. Ambient Horror: From Sonic Palimpsests to Haptic Sonority in the Cinema of Kurosawa Kiyoshi.- 3. Double Trouble: Doppelgängers in Japanese Horror.- 4.Cinema Fou: Surrealist Horror fromFace of Another toGozu.- 5. In the Wake of Artaud: Cinema of Cruelty inAudition andOldboy.- 6. Conclusion: Envelopes of Fear: The Temporality of Japanese Horror.

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensationsundertakes 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-horrors slow-burn style, which have contributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.

Steven T. Brown is Professor of Japanese Film, Transnational Cinema, and Sound Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, USA. He is author ofTokyo Cyberpunk (2010) andTheatricalities of Power(2001), editor ofCinema Anime (2006), and co-editor ofPerforming Japanese Women (2002).