Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema byattending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horrorcinema. Neither a conventional film history nor a thematic survey ofJapanese horror cinema, this study offers a transnational analysis ofselected films from new angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of thegenre, including sound design, framing techniques, and lighting,as well as theslow attack and long release times of J-horror's slow-burn style,which havecontributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.