Thesis about kaidan?

[Melek Ortabasi]

Hi Emma,

Also try Michael Foster's _Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai_ (UC Press)

Cheers,
Melek Ortabasi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emma Newbery" <emmanewbery at hotmail.co.uk>
To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2009 4:18:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: RE: Thesis about kaidan?

Excellent threat and subject. 

I am currently doing an indepth study into the relationship between japanese mythology (in the Kojiki and the Nihongi) and japanese horror cinema, focusing more on the 'kaidan' genre - anybody know of any good books or other resources i should be looking at as well as the excellent ones noted already in this thread? 

Kind Regards 


Emma Newbery 





> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:30:55 +0100 
> From: eigagogo at free.fr 
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
> Subject: Re: Thesis about kaidan? 
> 
> Thanks Lindsay, Michelle Li's book seems to be exactly what i'm looking for! :) 
> 
> ------------ 
> Here'a part of the abstract: 
> [..]This book aims to make sense of grotesque representations in setsuwa - 
> animated detached body parts, unusual sexual encounters, demons and 
> shape-shifting or otherwise wondrous animals - and, in a broader sense, to show 
> what this type of critical focus can reveal about the mentality of Japanese 
> people in the ancient, classical, and early medieval periods [..] 
> 
> 
> 
> Selon Lindsay Nelson <lrnelson at usc.edu>: 
> 
> > Dear Martin, 
> > 
> > In English, I've found Gerald Figal's Civilization and Monsters to be 
> > a great resource. Kaidan is also discussed in some sections of Stefan 
> > Tanaka's New Times in Modern Japan and Michele Li's Ambiguous Bodies: 
> > Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales. 
> > 
> > --Lindsay Nelson 
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM, <eigagogo at free.fr> wrote: 
> > 
> > > Dear, 
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for ressources related to kaidan, not limited to movies but 
> > > rather 
> > > focusing on its cultural roots and aspect. There's a book called 
> > > '"Pandemonium 
> > > and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai", by Michael Dylan 
> > > Foster. It is an expansion on his Doctoral thesis of several years earlier: 
> > > "Morphologies of Mystery: Yôkai and Discourses of the Supernatural in 
> > > Japan, 
> > > 1666-1999". So far i didn't find any (english) books, but maybe this has 
> > > already 
> > > been the subject of some thesis ? 
> > > 
> > > Again related to kaidan-eiga, is there any existing 'movie stills' books ? 
> > > There's sure lot of poster-books about jidai-geki, yakuza-eiga or 
> > > kaiju-eiga, 
> > > but i never came across something related to kaidan (maybe because it's 
> > > mainly 
> > > limited to Daiei/ShinToho productions?). 
> > > 
> > > Thanks! 
> > > 
> > > Martin 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 


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