Thesis about kaidan?

[Emma Newbery]

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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