Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and beyond
In the middle of the Asian crisis in the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box-office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular ‘J-Horror’ genre inspired ghost-movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore in unprecedented ways. Most often located i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitäts- u. Stadtbibliothek Köln
2016
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| In: |
Global Modernities and the (Re-)Emergence of Ghosts
Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Asia
/ Horror films
/ Spirits
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia |
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| Summary: | In the middle of the Asian crisis in the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box-office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular ‘J-Horror’ genre inspired ghost-movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore in unprecedented ways. Most often located in contemporary urban settings, these films feature frenzy, ghastly homicides, terror attacks, communication with the unredeemed (un)dead, and vengeful (female) ghosts with a terrifying grip on the living: features that have since became part of the mainstream television and film entertainment narrative pool. Southeast Asian ghost movies reflect upon the identity crises and trauma of the living as well as of the dead. Ghost movies are embedded and reflected in national as well as transnational cultures and politics, in narrative traditions, in the social worlds of the audience, and in the perceptual experience of each individual. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Global Modernities and the (Re-)Emergence of Ghosts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-39359 HDL: 10900/97976 |