J-Horror Cinema

General

Ancuta, Katarzyna. "Ringu and the Vortex of Horror: Contemporary Japanese Horror and the Technology of Chaos." Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (2007): 23–42.

Balmain, Colette. Introduction to Japanese Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Brown, Steven T. Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018

Crandol, Michael. Ghost in the Well: The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Dumas, Raechel. The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

England, Norman. Ring of Fear: Dispatches from the Trenches of Japanese Genre Film Sets. Las Vegas: iD Books, 2023.

Gerow, Aaron. "The Empty Return: Circularity and Repetition in Recent Japanese Horror Films." Minikomi: Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreis Japan. Vol. 64, 19–24, 2002.

Goldberg, Ruth. "Demons in the Family: Tracking the Japanese 'Uncanny Mother Film' from A Page of Madness to Ringu." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett, 370–385. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Haraguchi, Tomō, and Murata, Hideki. Nihon horā eiga e no shōtai [Introduction to Japanese Horror Films]. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2000. 

Hemmann, Kathryn. "Illusion, Reality, and Fearsome Femininity in Takashi Miike's Audition." In Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia, edited by Robert Shail, Samantha Holland, and Steven Gerrard. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. https://kathrynhemmann.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/kathryn-hemmann-fearsome-femininity-in-audition.pdf

Hickinbottom, Joe. "A Master of Horror? The Making and Marketing of Takashi Miike's Horror Reputation." In New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror, edited by Eddie Falvey, Jonathan Wroot, and Joe Hickinbottom. University of Wales Press, 2021. 

Hudson, Seán. "A Queer Aesthetic: Identity in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Horror Films." Film Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 3, 448–464, 2018. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/film.2018.0089 

Iles, Timothy. "The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films." Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 5, no. 2, 2005. http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/2005/Iles2.html 

Kinoshita, Chika. "The Mummy Complex: Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Loft and J-Horror." In Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema, edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, 103–122. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

Konaka, Chiaki. Horā eiga no miryoku: fandamentaru horā seigen [The fascination of horror films: A manifesto of fundamental horror]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2003.

Lacefield, Kristen, editor. The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring. New York: Routledge, 2010.

McRoy, Jay. Japanese Horror Cinema. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.

Nelson, Lindsay. Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media. New York: Lexington Books, 2021.

———. "Choosing Illusion: Mediated Reality and the Spectacle of the Idol in Kōji Shiraishi's Shirome." Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, vol. 8, no. 2, 140–155, 2016. 

———. "Abjection: Mitsuko." Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative from the University of Tokyo, 2019. https://jmpc-utokyo.com/keyword/abjection/

Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, Subashish Bhattacharjee, and Ananya Saha, editors. Japanese Horror Culture: Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games. New York: Lexington Books, 2021.

Posadas, Baryon Tensor. "Fantasies of the End of the World: The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi." positions: asia critique, vol. 22, no. 2, 2014.

Rojas, Carlos. "Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext," In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, edited by Daisuke Miyao, 416–437. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Serper, Zvika. "Shindō Kaneto's films Kuroneko and Onibaba: traditional and innovative manifestations of demonic embodiments." Japan Forum, vol. 17, no. 2 231–256, 2005. 

Stringer, Julian. "The Original and the Copy: Nakata Hideo's Ring (1998)." In Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts, edited by Alastair Philips and Julian Stringer, 296–307. Oxford: Routledge, 2007.

Takahashi, Hiroshi. Eiga no ma [Demons of cinema]. Tokyo: Seidosha, 2004.

Uchiyama, Kazuki. Kaiki to gensō e no kairo: kaidan kara j-horā e [Connecting Mystery and Illusion: From Ghost Stories to J-Horror]. Tokyo: Shinwasha, 2008.

Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo. "New Media's Impact on Horror Cinema." In Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age, 28–50. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012.

Wee, Valerie. Japanese Horror Films and Their American Remakes. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Video Interviews

Brown, Steven T., and Colleen Laird. "Interview with Professor Steven Brown on Asato Mari's Bilocation." UBC Conversations with J Horror Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK2eBR97Rro&feature=youtu.be 

Dumas, Raechel, and Colleen Laird. (2021). "Interview with Prof. Raechel Dumas on Shimizu Takashi's Ju-on." UBC Conversations with J Horror Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpk-rcl0iQE 

Hemmann, Kathryn, and Colleen Laird. (2020). "Interview with Dr. Kathryn Hemmann on Miike Takashi's Audition." UBC Conversations with J Horror Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvXamytU4DA&t=3s&ab_channel=ColleenLaird 

Kinoshita, Chika, and Colleen Laird. (2021). "Interview with Prof. Chika Kinoshita on Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Loft." UBC Conversations with J Horror Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMoH3skWAX8&t=1s 

Nelson, Lindsay, and Colleen Laird. (2021). "Interview with Prof. Lindsay Nelson on Shiraishi Kōji's Shirome." UBC Conversations with J Horror Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_C5kzXoFxg&t=786s 

Notes

The foundations of this reading list were generously provided by Lindsay Nelson.