The scary screen : media anxiety in The ring / edited by Kristen Lacefield
- Published:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2010
- Physical Description:
- ix, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Lacefield, Kristen
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Spreading the word. The horror of media : technology and spirituality in the Ringu films / Anthony Enns -- Tracing the transference of a cross-cultural media virus : the evolution of Ring / Greg Wright -- From gene to meme : the rhetoric of thought contagion in Koji Suzuki's Ring cycle / Chris Miles -- Loss in translation. Cultural constructions of the supernatural : the case of Ringu and The ring / Valerie Wee -- Video killed the movies : cultural translation in Ringu and The ring / Steven Rawle -- "Before you die, you see The ring" : notes on the immanent obsolescence of VHS / Caetlin Benson-Allot -- Bleeding through, or we are living in a digital world and I am an analog girl / Jeremy Tirrell -- Techno-human reproductions. Techno-human infancy in Gore Verbinski's The ring / Kimberly Jackson -- Of horseblood and TV snow : abhuman reproduction in The ring / Niles Tomlinson -- Horrific reproductions : pathology and gender in Koji Suzuki's Ring trilogy / D. Haque -- Computer shy : Ring and the technology of maternal longing / Douglas A. Brooks -- Afterword. Haunted networks / Jeffrey Sconce.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780754669845 (hardback : alk. paper)
075466984X (hardback : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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