reputation of Ringu series--Addendum

[Michael McCaskey]

Sorry--the full title of Kalat's book shd. be:

J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond

Since I needed to fix that, while I'm at it, "isse" shd. be "issue," and "a East Asian" shd. be "an East Asian"

Best, mmcc

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:09 pm
Subject: Re: reputation of Ringu series

> Two recent books that might be useful are:
> 
> 1) Horaa wa koushite tsukurareru: kyoufu no eiga-jutsu ("This Is 
> How Horror Is Created: The Art of Filming Fear"), by Washizu 
> Yoshiaki (Tokyo: Kinema junpo sha, 2006)
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> This book contains a series of essays and dialogues with noted 
> horror film makers, screenwriters, et al. - one is a 
> dialogue/interview with Ringu screenwriter Takahashi Hiroshi, and 
> another is a dialogue/interview with Nakata himself re Ringu films 
> and Dark Water - and there's a supplement at the end re Japanese 
> influences on Western horror films, with two essays focused on 
> Ringu films.
> 
> 2) Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge, and 
> Beyond, by David Kalat (New York: Vertical, 2007)
> 
> Another that you probably already have consulted is:
> 
> The Ring Companion, by Denis Meikle (London: Titan Books, 2005)
> 
> A Japanese magazine I recommend rather hesitantly is:
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> The current isse is listed above, and you could get it from Amazon 
> Japan, but this particular issue might not be useful for your 
> topic. You might check to see if SOAS in London has a file of 
> issues, since they have a East Asian Film Program.
> 
> A very good web site, which contains lots of very up-to-date 
> information on Japanese horror films, and with which one of the 
> members of this list is affiliated, is:
> 
> http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/index.html
> 
> The site also has an attached discussion group you can join, I 
> think, where you may also find some very good answers to your 
> questions.
> With Best Wishes,
> 
> Michael McCaskey
> 
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> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Emma Newbery <emmanewbery at hotmail.co.uk>
> Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:48 pm
> Subject: reputation of Ringu series
> 
> > Hello all.
> > 
> > Can anyone please let me know what the current reputation of the 
> > Japanese 
> > Ringu series of productions in in Japan and Western if possible, 
> > as my 
> > thesis is aiming to revaluate this reputation, believe the Ringu 
> > series to 
> > be significant in changes to japanese, korean and hollywood cinema.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time!
> > 
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