Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought

by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough

Book Overview

Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanalysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze.

In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501375024
• ISBN13: 9781501375026
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"