Download PDF by Kristen Lacefield: The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring

By Kristen Lacefield

ISBN-10: 075466984X

ISBN-13: 9780754669845

In 1991, the booklet of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the 1st novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated an incredible outpouring of cultural creation in Japan, Korea, and the USA. simply because the topic of the booklet is the lethal viral replica of a VHS tape, so, too, is the titanic proliferation of textual content and cinematic productions suggestive of an airborne contagion with a lifetime of its personal. examining the intense trans-cultural approval for the hoop phenomenon, the dreaded monitor locates a lot of its energy within the ways that the books and flicks astutely graft modern cultural preoccupations onto the standard parts of the ghost story”in specific, the japanese ghost tale. even as, the members exhibit, those cultural matters are themselves underwritten via a number of anxieties prompted by way of the arrival of recent communications and media applied sciences, maybe most importantly, the shift from analog to electronic. Mimicking the phenomenon it seeks to appreciate, the collection's energy comes from its dedication to the total diversity of Ring-related output and its embody of a wide selection of interpretive techniques, because the participants chart the mutations of the hoop narrative from writer to writer, from medium to medium, and from Japan to Korea to the United States.

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