Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films such as Hideo Nakata's The Ring (Ringu, 1998) or ......
Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media
This book examines Japanese horror films released from the 2010s to present day, analyzing the function of computers, smartphones, and social media in the narratives, dissemination, and consumption of these films. Lindsay Nelson argues that the multitude of screens creates a sense of fractured reality in contemporary Japanese horror.
Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is ...
This book examines how Hollywood has promoted the myth of the American White male savior and the way in which this myth has negatively affected people of color throughout U.S. history.
This book examines the significance of the thirty-two Krimi films produced by Rialto Film from 1959 to 1972, canonizing their role in the era of German popular cinema during Krimi's rise to popularity and inevitable decline and evolution.
Contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. Scholars of cinema studies, horror, and ecology will find this book of particular interest.
Theology and Wes Craven explores the religious themes in the movies, television shows, and other works of the man who redefined the horror genre. This volume is sure to be appreciated both by academics and horror enthusiasts everywhere.
In this book, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a tour of the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible, using contemporary horror films as a conversation partner. He examines how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.
