Transnational Horror Cinema

1. Introduction
Sophia Siddique, Raphael Raphael

Part I. Questions of Genre

2. Butchered in Translation: A Transnational “Grotesuqe”
Mike Dillon

3. An Introduction to the Continental Horror Film
Kevin Wynter

4. Dracula, Vampires, and Kung Fu Fighters: The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Transnational Horror Co-production in 1970s Hong Kong
Sangjoon Lee

Part II. The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror)

5. Dead Meat: Horror, Disability, and Eating Rituals
Julia Gruson-Wood

6. Music, Sound, and Noise as Bodily Disorders: Disabling the Filmic Diegesis in Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and Gore Verbinski’s The Ring

Stefan Sunandan Honisch

7. An Eyepatch of Courage: Battle-Scarred Amazon Warriors in the Movies of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
Moritz Fink

8. Scary Truths: Morality and the Differently Abled Mind in Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom

Paul Rae Marchbanks

Part III. Responses to Trauma

9. Towards a Southeast Asian Model of Horror: Thai Horror Cinema in Malaysia, Urbanization, and Cultural Proximity
Mary J. Ainslie

10. Planet Kong: Transnational Flows of King Kong (1933) in Japan and East Asia
Raphael Raphael

11. Embodying Spectral Vision in The Eye

Sophia Siddique

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Genre, Sociology of the Body, Culture and Gender, Cultural Theory, Global Cinema