Ghost movies in Southeast Asia and beyond
Subtitle: narratives, cultural contexts, audiences
By: edited by Peter J. Bräunlein, Andrea Lauser
Series: Verhandelingen van het: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 306; Southeast Asia mediated -- volume 7; Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- 306.; Southeast Asia mediated -- v. 7.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9789004323407
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Supernatural in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures; Motion pictures
Description: "Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular "J-Horror" genre inspired similar ghost movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. Ghost movies are embedded and reflected in national as well as transnational cultures and politics, in narrative traditions, in the social worlds of the audience, and in the perceptual experience of each individual. They reflect upon the identity crises and traumas of the living as well as of the dead, and they unfold affection and attraction in the border zone between amusement and thrill, secular and religious worldviews. This makes the genre interesting not only for sociologists, anthropologists, media and film scholars, but also for scholars of religion"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Cinema-spiritualism' in Southeast Asia and beyond: Encounters with ghosts in the 21st century / Peter J. Braunlein; title: Narratives; title: Ghost movies in Southeast Asia: universal hybrids-the trans/local production of Pan-Asian horror / Vivian Lee; title: Well-travelled female avengers: the transcultural potential of Japanese ghosts / Elisabeth Scherer; title: Telling tales: variety, community, and horror in Thailand / Martin Platt; title: 'Sundelbolong' as a mode of femininity: analysis of popular ghost movies in Indonesia / Maren Wilger; title: Cultural contexts; title: That's the spirit! Horror films as an extension of Thai supernaturalism / Katarzyna Ancuta; title: The Khmer witch project: demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a demon / Benjamin Baumann; title: Stepping out from the silver screen and into the shadows: the fearsome, ephemeral ninjas of Timor-Leste / Henri Myrttinen; title: Audience; title: The supernatural and post-war Thai film: traditional monsters and social mobility / Mary Ainslie; title: Globalized haunting: the transnational spectral in Apichatpong's syndromes and a century and its reception / Natalie Boehler; title: Pencak silat, ghosts, and (inner) power: reception of martial arts movies and television series amongst young pencak silat practitioners in Indonesia / Patrick Keilbart; title: Ghost movies, the makers, and their audiences: Andrea Lauser in conversation with the filmmakers Katarzyna Ancuta and Solars in Ngoenwichit from Thailand and Mattie Do from Laos / Andrea Lauser.