Sökning: "Japanese horror"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden Japanese horror.

1. 1. Sex och droger är inget för mig : The final girl från den japanska slasherfilmen

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

   Författare :Oskar Franzen; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Final girl; slasher; Evil Dead Trap; convention; Japanese horror.; Final girl; slasher; Evil Dead Trap; konvention; japansk skräck;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to assess to which extent the concept called the final girl can be applied to a character produced outside USA. To achieve this, I have used a Japanese film called Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1988), where I have analyzed the character Nami and her relations to the conventions of the final girl. LÄS MER

3. 2. A Study of the Translation of H.P Lovecraft’s Usage of Religious Metaphors in The Shadow over Innsmouth

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Författare :Juuso Mäki; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Translation; Lovecraft; Metaphor; Japanese English translation; Equivalent; Religious metaphor;

   Sammanfattning : The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a book written by H.P Lovecraft and is one of the first books in the genre of cosmic horror. The book has been translated several times by different translators from English to Japanese. LÄS MER

4. 3. Kayako Saeki och hämnden : Hur historiska traditioner formade det kvinnliga japanska spöket

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

   Författare :Linnea Lagesson; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Kayako Saeki; The Grudge; Ju-On; japansk historia; japansk kultur; japanska spöken; kvinnohistoria; genushistoria; genusperspektiv;

   Sammanfattning : Kayako and The Grudge: How Historical Traditions Shaped The Female Japanese Ghost is an attempt at examining the Japanese historical past, and to unearth the tropes, traditions and legends that laid the foundation for one of the most beloved horror icons of the past thirty years. From the rise of the J-horror genre, where Japanese horror films were first introduced to Western cinema during the late 1990s to the early 2000s, few characters have become as well known or as beloved as Ju-On:s Kayako Saeki. LÄS MER

5. 4. Gender representation through the horrors of Fatal frame (2001) : Textual analysis into female gender representation in the Japanese survival horror game, Fatal Frame (2001)

   Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

   Författare :Vanja Waller; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Horror games; gender representation; female gender; horror cinema; female protagonist; Fatal frame; Japanese horror; survival horror; audience analysis;

   Sammanfattning : Gender representation in the horror genre has many interesting discussions surrounding it through multiple perspectives such as psychoanalysis and culture. This article intends to expand the investigation of how female characters are portrayed in horror games. LÄS MER

7. 5. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

   Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Författare :Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
   Nyckelord :internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. LÄS MER