ISBN:
9781137584175
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Siddique, Sophia Transnational Horror Cinema : Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Motion pictures
Abstract:
Notes on Contributors -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Theoretical Intervention: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Grotesque Body -- Theoretical Intervention: Dis/Ability: Destabilizing Cultural Scripts of Embodiment -- Part I: Questions of Genre -- Mike Dillon -- Kevin Wynter -- Sangjoon Lee -- Part II: The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror) -- Julia Gruson-Wood -- Stefan Sunandan Honisch -- Moritz Fink -- Paul Rae Marchbanks -- Part III: Responses to Trauma -- Mary J. Ainslie -- Raphael Raphael -- Sophia Siddique -- References -- Part I: Questions of Genre -- Chapter 2: Butchered in Translation: A Transnational "Grotesuqe" -- Unrated and Unauthorized -- (Mis)Translation -- The Generic Image of Torture (Porn) -- "Grotesuqe" -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 3: An Introduction to the Continental Horror Film -- Phases of the Horror Film -- The Rise of the Serial Killer -- Without a Trace -- Continental Horror -- Morbid Curiosity -- The Stranger -- Contingency -- The Banality of Evil -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Dracula, Vampires, and Kung Fu Fighters: The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Transnational Horror Co-production in 1970s Hong Kong -- Runaway Production: From Europe to Hong Kong -- Before the Legend: The Birth of Kung Fu Cinema -- The Legend Begins: Between Kung Fu and Horror -- Reading the Legend -- Epilogue -- References -- Part II: The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror) -- Chapter 5: Dead Meat: Horror, Disability, and Eating Rituals -- Monster Slash: Severing Inside/Outside Boundaries -- Scare Tactics: Disabling Evil and Normalizing Catharsis -- Supernaturally Disabled: Flexible, Powerful Monstrous Bodies -- Dishing Out a Scare: Disability, Monstrosity, and Eating in Horror -- Monsters Feeding Off Death
Abstract:
Developing a Taste for Life and Death: Consumption Rituals in True Blood -- Manners and Mad Gods: Meat, Mental Disability, and Monstrosity in True Blood -- The Food Critic and the Freak: Grotesque Banquets and Disability Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Music, Sound, and Noise as Bodily Disorders: Disabling the Filmic Diegesis in Hideo Nakata's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's The Ring -- Horror Films: Monstrosity and Transnational Fictions of the Normal -- Disability as "Narrative Prosthesis": Musical, Sonic, and Noisy Representations of Disability in Transnational Horror -- Musical, Sonic, and Noisy Representations of Disability in Hideo Nakata's Ringu, and Gore Verbinski's The Ring -- The Future of Music, Sound, and Noise in Transnational Horror Films -- References -- Chapter 7: An Eyepatch of Courage: Battle-Scarred Amazon Warriors in the Movies of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino -- The (Disfigured) Amazon -- Exploitation Film Revisited: Women Warriors and Transnational Cinema -- An Eye for an Eye: Revenge in Thriller -- "Kill the Bitch": Kill Bill's Eyepatched Villainess -- The Eyepatch as Eye Catcher: Machete's Super-Amazon -- From Go-Go Girl to Zombie-Killing Machine in Transnational Borderlands -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 8: Scary Truths: Morality and the Differently Abled Mind in Lars von Trier's The Kingdom -- Bloodied Stitches: Amalgamating a New Brand of Horror -- Masters of the Cosmetic: Western Medicine and Intellectual Difference -- Dishwashers with Depth: A Counterpoint to Medical Eugenics -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Responses to Trauma -- Chapter 9: Towards a Southeast Asian Model of Horror: Thai Horror Cinema in Malaysia, Urbanization, and Cultural Proximity -- introduction -- The International Growth and Urbanness of Thai Cinema
Abstract:
Thai Horror in Malaysia-Cultural Proximity and a Southeast Asia Model of Horror? -- Difference as Attraction -- Censorship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Planet Kong: Transnational Flows of King Kong (1933) in Japan and East Asia -- Towards Understanding an Especially Ambivalent Text -- Chronotope of King Kong (1933) -- "Good Kongs" and "Bad Kongs" -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 11: Embodying Spectral Vision in The Eye -- Introduction -- The Eye as Transnational Text -- Phantasmic Geography -- Grotesque Bodies: Mun-Ling and Film-Spectator -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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