J-horror Inquirer article

[Mark Mays]

There are two schools on that: There are some who would assume as you
describe, there are others who lean to far towards assuming it all comes
from the Western masters. I don't think foreign cinema is completely
isolated, however, I think some tend not to recognize that indigenous
culture has a stronger impact than they believe, certainly as strong as the
impact of which film maker the "foreigner" watched in their youth.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Larson
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:42 PM
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: RE: J-horror Inquirer article

This kind of brings up a point that I've discussed
with several people. There is a tendency to assume
that "foreign" (i.e. non-American) cinemas are
completely isolated, drawing only on influences within
their respective cultures, but the impact of American
films on any cinema cannot be denied. Film makers are
like anybody else, they like to imitate their favorite
film makers, so it comes to, who laid the chicken and
who cracked the egg? 

--- Mark Mays <tetsuwan at comcast.net> wrote:

> Ordinarily, I'd say blame us in the media, however,
> I think this was a fan
> thing. Everything from Japan (except animation) that
> achieves a level of
> cultural cache is given the appellation "J-*****".
> It's nominally a simple
> declaration of origin, however it takes on all sorts
> of meaning, you know .
> . . .
> 
> Influence, btw, is so cyclical. Yeah, there's been
> bits and pieces of things
> showing up in Holly-woof films, and well I suppose a
> remake signifies the
> ultimate in "influence." However, there are a bunch
> of critics I know who
> will eagerly point out what they see as the
> influence of Western horror
> films in the recent Japanese horror boom. How does
> one separate the two when
> examining a single work? I don't know if it is so
> easy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On
> Behalf Of Mathieu
> St-Pierre
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:49 PM
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: J-horror Inquirer article
> 
> Does anybody know where the term "J-HORROR" come
> from? Because to my opinion
> 
> this thing never really exist... What I mean is
> Japanese horror movies 
> always been around. It only been massively
> recognized by the U.S. and Europe
> 
> with the arrival of Ring. But the term "J-HORROR"
> was probably used by the 
> movie industry in the u.s. or the DVD industry to
> sell more easily something
> 
> that was difficult to market at that time. So
> "J-HORROR" would only be a 
> market name so to speak. Maybe the critics started
> using it afterward. But, 
> I may be all wrong. This is just my opinion.
> 
> 
> Mathieu St-Pierre
> 
> >yeah thanks for the article, i am doing my phd on
> j-horror's influence on 
> >hollywood do u have anything else on this subject?
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >>From: Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
> >>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> >>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> >>Subject: Re: J-horror Inquirer article
> >>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:16:08 -0400
> >>
> >>Many thanks! You all are practically writing my
> new lecture for me.
> >>
> >>Michael McCaskey
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: Brian Ruh <brianruh at yahoo.com>
> >>Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006 1:12 pm
> >>Subject: Re: J-horror Inquirer article
> >>
> >> > On 2006.6.8, at 11:17  AM, Michael McCaskey
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Does anyone know about any other non-horror
> remakes, recent or on
> >> > > the horizon?
> >> >
> >> > After my previous post I saw the announcement
> that New Line has bought
> >> > the rights to remake Battle Royale:
> >> > http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060608b.php
> >> >
> >> > == Brian
> >> >
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