The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9783319924649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 217 str.

Raechel Dumas

Opis

The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction.

Spis treści

1. Open Wounds: Situating the Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japan

2. The Girls that Never End: The Infinite Seduction of Tomie and Ring

3. Xenogenesis: Monstrous Mothers and Evolutionary Horrors in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction

4. Faces of Horror, Dances of Death: Female Revenants and Suburban Hauntings in New Millennial Japanese Horror Films

5. Corrupted Innocence, Sacred Violence, and Gynoid Becomings: The Monstrous-Feminine on the Gaming Scene

6. Disobedient Bodies, Monstrous Affinities: Reframing Female Defilement in Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle

7. The End?

O autorze

Raechel Dumas is Assistant Professor of Humanities at San Diego State University, USA.