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The Scary Screen

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The Scary Screen

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Media Anxiety in The Ring

The Scary Screen

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Media Anxiety in The Ring
Edited ByKristen Lacefield
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553115
Pages 248
eBook ISBN 9781315553115
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Lacefield, K. (Ed.). (2010). The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553115

ABSTRACT

In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Just as the subject of the book is the deadly viral reproduction of a VHS tape, so, too, is the vast proliferation of text and cinematic productions suggestive of an airborne contagion with a life of its own. Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, The Scary Screen locates much of its power in the ways in which the books and films astutely graft contemporary cultural preoccupations onto the generic elements of the ghost story”in particular, the Japanese ghost story. At the same time, the contributors demonstrate, these cultural concerns are themselves underwritten by a range of anxieties triggered by the advent of new communications and media technologies, perhaps most significantly, the shift from analog to digital. Mimicking the phenomenon it seeks to understand, the collection's power comes from its commitment to the full range of Ring-related output and its embrace of a wide variety of interpretive approaches, as the contributors chart the mutations of the Ring narrative from author to author, from medium to medium, and from Japan to Korea to the United States.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |26 pages

Introduction: Media Anxiety and the Ring Phenomenon

ByKristen Lacefield

part |2 pages

Part I Spreading the Word

chapter 1|16 pages

The Horror of Media: Technology and Spirituality in the Ringu Films

ByAnthony Enns

chapter 2|18 pages

Tracing the Transference of a Cross-Cultural Media Virus: The Evolution of Ring

ByGreg Wright

chapter 3|16 pages

From Gene to Meme: The Rhetoric of Thought Contagion in Koji Suzuki’s Ring Cycle

ByKoji Suzuki’s Ring Cycle Chris Miles

part |2 pages

Part II Loss in Translation

chapter 4|16 pages

Cultural Constructions of the Supernatural: The Case of Ringu and The Ring

ByValerie Wee

chapter 5|18 pages

Video Killed the Movie: Cultural Translation in Ringu and The Ring

BySteven Rawle

chapter 6|26 pages

“Before You Die, You See The Ring”:Notes on the Imminent Obsolescence of VHS

ByCaetlin Benson-Allott

chapter 7|18 pages

Bleeding Through, or We Are Living in a Digital World and I Am an Analog Girl

Edited ByKristen Lacefield

part |2 pages

Part III Techno-Human Reproductions

chapter 8|14 pages

Techno-Human Infancy in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring

ByKimberly Jackson

chapter 9|16 pages

Of Horse Blood and TV Snow: Abhuman Reproduction in The Ring

ByNiles Tomlinson

chapter 10|14 pages

Horrific Reproductions: Pathology and Gender in Koji Suzuki’s Ring Trilogy

ByD. Haque

chapter 11|8 pages

Computer Shy: Ring and the Technology of Maternal Longing

ByDouglas A. Brooks
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