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Title Horror to the extreme : changing boundaries in Asian cinema / edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) : illustrations
Series TransAsia : screen cultures
TransAsia--screen cultures.
Contents J-horror : New Media's Impact on Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- A Cinema of Girlhood : Sonyeo Sensibility and the Decorative Impulse in the Korean Horror Cinema / Jinhee Choi -- Inner Senses and the Changing Face of Hong Kong Horror Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- The Pan-Asian Outlook of The Eye / Adam Knee -- The Art of Branding : Tartan "Asia Extreme'" Films / Chi-Yun Shin -- The Mummy Complex : Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Loft and J-horror / Chika Kinoshita -- The Good, the Bad, and the South Korean : Violence, Morality, and the South Korean Extreme Film / Robert L. Cagle -- Magic, Medicine, Cannibalism : The China Demon in Hong Kong Horror / Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh, Neda Hei-Tung Ng -- That Unobscure Object of Desire and Horror : On Some Uncanny Things in Recent Korean Horror Films / Hyun-Suk Seo -- "Tell the Kitchen That There's Too Much Buchu in the Dumpling" : Reading Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" oldboy / Kyung Hyun Kim -- A Politics of Excess : Violence and Violation in Miike Takashi's Audition / Robert Hyland
Summary This title compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighbouring Asian cultures. The essays highlight common themes such as technology digital media, and transnational co-productions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index
Notes English
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In HKU Press digital editions
Subject Horror films -- Asia -- History and criticism
Horror films -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Horror films
Horrorfilm
Asia
Asien
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Choi, Jinhee, editor.
Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo, editor.
ISBN 9789888052370
9888052373
9882207022
9789882207028
1282708996
9781282708990
9786612708992
6612708999