Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #296547 in Books
- Published on: 2006-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 211 pages
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Synopsis
The author defines "dark cinema" as "a meta-genre that embraces the macabre and disturbing, shocking and profane, dire and devastating extremes of the contemporary film experience," thus encompassing horror, exploitation film, black comedy, psychological thrillers, and even some types of police procedurals and art house fare. In this work he takes



