Jun 22, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Games, Other, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Ring Franchise The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially successful domestic horror film ever released — are polyvalent and anfractuous, constituted of almost unprecedented levels of...
Jun 22, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Games, Volume 23
In 2008, Steven Spielberg received a DVD screener of Oren Peli’s micro-budget horror film Paranormal Activity; after watching it, Spielberg claims his bedroom door mysteriously locked from the inside, forcing the director to call a locksmith. [1] He quickly returned...
Jun 22, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Other, Print Media, Television, Volume 23
Introduction The Jodi Arias Trial has been described as one of the most peculiar and salacious murder trials in American history.[1] In May 2013, Arias, a 32 year-old woman, was found guilty of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander in Mesa, Arizona on June 4th...
Jun 22, 2014 | Animation, Comics, Television, Volume 23
It has been common in recent years for a Japanese entertainment property to encompass multiple forms of media. In fact, it has become unusual for a media product to not exist in more than one format. There are many different paths that this media progression can take...
Feb 5, 2014 | Browse Past Volumes, Refractory, Uncategorized, Volume 22
Contents 1. Passing Time and Ruin: Michael Richards and the Afterlife of Performance in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee – Elliott Logan 2. Asian Extreme, Tokyo Gore, and Sushi Typhoon: Selling Eastern Violence to Western Audiences – Jessica Hughes 3. The...
Feb 5, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 22
This article considers a recent group of Japanese films and filmmakers that use Asian Extreme style to signal an awareness of international audiences, and it will argue for a set of central features typifying this category of film, which is referred to as...
