Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror: New Critical Approaches to History, Narratives and Aesthetics (Additional Chapters).
deadline for submissions:
January, 3, 2021
full name / name of organization:
Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
Ananya Saha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni
Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
contact email:
subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com
citeron05@yahoo.com
Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror: New Critical
Approaches to History, Narratives and Aesthetics for Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers (Additional Chapters).
Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
Ananya Saha (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Cathedra of Film and Literature
http://artes.filo.uba.ar/la-literatura-de-las-artes-combinadas-ii
We, the editors, are looking for five-six additional
chapters for our book on Japanese horror. A contract with Rowman &
Littlefield has been signed and we expect a quick turnaround. Below, our
original CFP.
The cultural phenomenon of Japanese Horror has been of
the most celebrated cultural exports of the country, being witness to
some of the most notable aesthetic and critical addresses in the history
of modern horror cultures. Encompassing a range of genres and
performances including cinema, manga, video games, and television
series, the loosely designated genre has often been known to uniquely
blend ‘Western' narrative and cinematic techniques and tropes with
traditional narrative styles, visuals and folklores. Tracing back to the
early decades of the twentieth century, modern Japanese horror cultures
have had tremendous impact on world cinema, comics studies and video
game studies, and popular culture, introducing many trends which are
widely applied in contemporary horror narratives. The hybridity that is
often native to Japanese aestheticisation of horror is an influential
element that has found widespread acceptance in the genres of horror.
These include classifications of ghosts as the yuurei and the youkai;
the plight of the suffering individual in modern, industrial society,
and the lack thereof to fend for oneself while facing circumstances
beyond comprehension, or when the features of industrial society
themselves produce horror (Ringu, Tetsuo, Ju on); settings such as damp, dank spaces that reinforce the idea of morbid, rotten return from the afterlife (Dark Water)—these
are features that have now been rather unconsciously assimilated into
the canon of Hollywood or western horror cultures, and may often be
traced back to Japanese Horror (or J-Horror) cultures. Besides the often
de facto reliance on gore and violence, the psychological motif has
been one of the most important aspects of Japanese Horror cultures.
Whether it is supernatural, sci-fi or body horror, J-Horror cultures
have explored methods that enable the visualising of depravity and
violent perversions, and the essence of spiritual and material horror in
a fascinating fashion, inventing the mechanics of converting the most
fatal fears into visuals.
The proposed volume will focus on directors and films,
illustrators and artists and manga, video game makers/designers and
video games that have helped in establishing the genre firmly within the
annals of world cinema, popular culture and imagination, and in
creating a stylistic paradigm shift in horror cinema across the film
industries of diverse nations. We seek essays on J-Horror sub-genres,
directors, illustrators, designers and their oeuvre, the aesthetics of
J-Horror films, manga, and video games, styles, concepts, history, or
particular films that have created a trajectory of J-Horror cultures.
Works that may be explored in essay-length studies include, but are not
limited to, Kwaidan, Onibaba, Jigoku, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and its sequels, Audition, Fatal Frame, the Resident Evil game franchise, Siren, Uzumaki, Gyo, Tomie, besides the large number of Japanese horror films that have been remade for the US market, including Ringu, Ju on, Dark Water, and Pulse among
others, and a host of video games with Western/American settings (such
as the Silent Hill franchise) and film adaptations (Resident Evil
franchise)—analysing the shift from the interactive game form to
consumable horror in the cinematic form. For adaptations, we are also
looking for essays that analyse the shift from the interactive game form
or image-and-text form to consumable audiovisual horror in the form of
cinema and vice versa. Analyses of remakes could also focus on the
translatability of Japanese horror vis-à-vis American or Hollwood-esque
horror, and how the Hollywood remakes have often distilled western
horror cinematic types to localise the content.
Directors, designers and manga artists working in the
ambit of Japanese horror cultures who may be discussed include, but are
not limited to, Nobuo Nakagawa, Kaneto Shindo, Masaki Kobayashi, Hideo
Nakata, Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ataru Oikawa, Takashi Shimizu,
Hideo Kojima, Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, Katsuhisa Kigtisu,
Gou Tanabe and others. Other issues that may be explored in J-Horror
cultures may include the issue of violence and gore, gender and
sexuality, sexual representation, the types of the supernatural,
cinematic techniques and narrative techniques and others.
At this stage we are looking for abstracts for proposed
chapters up to 500 words within January, 3, 2021, but complete papers
will be well received. The papers must be written according to the MLA
stylesheet, following the rules of the 7th Edition handbook, with
footnotes instead of endnotes. All submissions (Garamond, 1.5 pt line
spacing) must be accompanied by an abstract (200-250 words) and a short
bio-biblio of the author. Images, if used, should preferably be free
from copyright issues—sourced from creative commons/copyright-free
sources, or permissions should be obtained from relevant copyright
holders.
Enquiries and submissions are to be directed to Subashish Bhattacharjee, Ananya Saha and Fernando Pagnoni Berns at
subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com
citeron05@yahoo.com
Subashish Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor of
English at the University of North Bengal, India. He edits the
interdisciplinary online journal The Apollonian, and is the
Editor of Literary Articles and Academic Book Reviews of Muse India. His
doctoral research, on the cultures of built space, is from the Centre
for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he has also been
a UGC-Senior Fellow. His recent publications include Queering Visual Cultures (Universitas, 2018), and New Women's Writing (Cambridge Scholars, co-edited with GN Ray, 2018).
Ananya Saha is a PhD scholar in the Centre for English
Studies, JNU, New Delhi. Her research is on the idea of the 'outsider'
in Japanese and non-Japanese manga vis-a-vis globalization. Other
research interests include Fandom and Queer studies, Translation theory
and practice, New Literatures and so on. She has published in
international journals, including Orientaliska Studier (No 156), from the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies. She is the co-editor of the volume titled Trajectories of the Popular: Forms, Histories, Contexts (2019),
published by AAKAR, New Delhi. She has been the University Grants
Fellow, SAP-DSA-(I) in the Centre for English Studies, JNU (2016-17),
and has been awarded a DAAD research visit grant to Tuebingen
University, Germany under the project "Literary Cultures of Global
South."
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (PHD) is an Assistant
Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) - Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras (Argentina)-. He teaches courses on international
horror film and is director of the research group on horror cinema
“Grite.” He has published chapters in the books To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post 9/11 Horror, edited by John Wallis, Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Douglas Cunningham, A Critical Companion to James Cameron, edited by Antonio Sanna, and Gender and Environment in Science Fiction, edited by Bridgitte Barclay, among others. He has authored a book about Spanish horror TV series Historias para no Dormir and edited James Wan: Critical Essays for McFarland (forthcoming 2021).
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Contact Info:
subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com;
citeron05@yahoo.com
