Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: 'New waves', old terrors, and emerging fears -- Guinea pigs and entrails: cultural transformations and body horror in Japanese torture films -- Cultural transformation, corporeal prohibitions and body horror in Sato Hisayasu's Naked blood and muscle -- Ghosts of the present, spectres of the past: the kaidan and the haunted family in the cinema of Nakata Hideo and Shimizu Takashi -- A murder of doves: youth violence and the rites of passing in contemporary Japanese horror cinema -- Spiraling into apocalypse: Sono Shion's suicide circle, Higuchinsky's Uzumaki and Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Pulse -- New terrors, emerging trends, and the future of Japanese horror cinema.
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