reputation of Ringu series

[Emma Newbery]

is the text ("This Is How Horror Is Created: The Art of Filming Fear"), by 
Washizu Yoshiaki translated into english, as i cannot read japanese yet!



Emma Newbery BA (hons), MA
Programme Leader
BTEC National Diploma in Media (Moving Image)
Blackpool and the Fylde College





>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: reputation of Ringu series
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:09:47 -0400
>
>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:
>
>?z???[ M (?~?X?e???[) 2007?N 08???? [?G??] - ????????
>
>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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