Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
East Asian Popular Culture Series

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes 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-horror?s slow-burn style, which have contributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.

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 from Face of Another to Gozu.- 5. In the Wake of Artaud: Cinema of Cruelty in Audition and Oldboy.- 6. Conclusion: Envelopes of Fear: The Temporality of Japanese Horror.

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 of Tokyo Cyberpunk (2010) and Theatricalities of Power (2001), editor of Cinema Anime (2006), and co-editor of Performing Japanese Women (2002).