.... This article argues that the horror revealed by such stories is one that challenges Singaporean claims to ethnic and economic supremacy in the region, as it points to a return of a perceived threat from an allochronous rural world. Each presents a particular challenge to a sealed, prosperous, “first world...

...David Pollack Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Revenge of the Illegal Asians: Aliens, Gangsters, and Myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror David Pollack World Apartment Horror (Japanese title: Wa'rudo apitomento hora') by Kon...

.... But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a moral arena in which truths about how to raise and educate children correctly are produced and naturalized. They constitute negative models, usually...

.... In the struggle for “space,” both body and city are portrayed as intimate dystopias, where the most familiar things become the most estranging sites of horror. References Amélie . 2001 . DVD. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet . Santa Monica : Lionsgate . Baober in Love (Lian’ai zhong de baobei) . 2004...

... of an “endless every- day” (owaranaki nichij10 To date, much of the critical commentary on Kurosawa’s films highlight his engagement with the discourse surrounding Japanese horror cinema. Since he initially gained wide international...

... 22 shock of horror are accessible through a “trauma art” rooted in a politics of the present, but such trauma art guarantees neither a politics of liberation nor a reconstitution of the victims’ dignity. I discuss the work of artists who...

... of Mirrored Metaphors 467 Kelvin Tong’s The Maid is generically a horror film and ostensibly is a part of the commercial renewal of the genre within contemporary Southeast Asian cinema. It is, however, a text richly...

..., or “flash/boom”-the fulguration of what can never again be a perspectival landscape in which the truth of ontology is revealed to be absolute, unbearable, unspeakable, unimaginable, unthinkable, unrepresentable horror. I have just spoken...

... Postmodernism: Critiquing Science, Technology, and Globalisation .” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32 , no. 1 : 65 – 74 . Carroll Noël . 1987 . “ The Nature of Horror .” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Critic 46 , no. 1 : 51 – 59 . Carroll Noël . 1990 . The Philosophy of Horror...

..., the patriarchy asserts its authority and attempts to convince both male positions 9:2 Fall 2001 454 and female viewers of its validity. In 301/302, the use of the horror-cum- thriller format argues for this patriarchal...

... generated the pervasive infantilization and impotence of an entire culture. Transformations from horror to cuteness (and the reverse), the incessant virtualization of trauma, metamorphoses effected in the monstrous guises...

... to internationally publicize the horror of how the atomic bomb affected human beings. In discussing how best to accomplish this, they agreed that visual images would have the most direct impact and decided to publish a book of photographs. And so...

...” in Kon Satoshi’s progressive manga, World Apartment Horror, traces how the code operates. It can be instrumentalized. It can be commer- cialized. Aihwa Ong’s Hong Kong “astronaut” strategizes a sense of self in relation to global capital...

... the empty shell of a debate imported tout court from Japan, it is enough to say that the response was to a horror.41 “It is reported that the number of peasants who are struggling on the death line is over 90 percent of the total population...

... the power to lay bare, under the cunning, orderly surface of civilizations, the nurturing horror that they attend to pushing aside by purifying, systematizing, and thinking. As Georges Bataille (1988: 10­ 11) would recommend, body art accesses this expérience intérieure of anguished rupture through...

... . “ Transnational Spectres and Regional Spectators: Flexible Citizenship in New Chinese Horror Cinema .” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6 , no. 1 : 41 – 64 . Goh Daniel P. S. 2012 . “ Oriental Purity: Postcolonial Discomfort and Asian Values .” positions: asia critique 20 , no. 4 : 1041 – 66...

... and ideas migrate from one part of the world to another (Driver and Yeoh 2000: 3). Sophia Siddique Harvey has read the horror lm genre in Singapore in the ways that they frame urban and tropical spaces. Harvey (2008: 25) argues that the spectral tropicality unsettles vectors of space, place and belong...

... brothers’ low-­budget horror filmPurani haveli (1989) is a good place to begin a discussion of what the haveli tele- graphs as an architectural landmark in Hindi cinema. The film was made to exploit a particular market and genre with limited...

..., to become a person created by words, for that, Walker argues, is the “sign of the emperor” and the horror of the tenno system in fictional form, which, at the end of this rigorous critique, refers to “Mishima’s necroperformative bequeathal...

..., and Japanese generals were never charged with atrocities against the Chinese people. Nevertheless, we should not blame the MIT messengers as the legitimators of the horrors of the past. Dower and Miyagawa did their best to present the horrors...