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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction:‘New Waves’, Old Terrors, and Emerging Fears 1
Guinea Pigs and Entrails: Cultural Transformations
and Body Horror in Japanese Torture Film 15
Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and
Body Horror in Sato Hisayasu’s Naked Blood and Muscle 49
Ghosts of the Present, Spectres of the Past: The kaidan and the
Haunted Family in the Cinema of Nakata Hideo
and Shimizu Takashi 75
A Murder of Doves: Youth Violence and the Rites of Passing
in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema 103
Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion’s Suicide Circle,
Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Pulse 135
New Terrors, Emerging Trends, and the Future of Japanese
Horror Cinema 171
Works Cited and Consulted 199
Index 217
