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The Undead Subject of Lost Decade Japanese Horror Cinema

Parrish, Jordan G.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6204-8737
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1502193416130062

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film Studies (Fine Arts).
This thesis argues that Japanese Horror films released around the turn of the twenty-first century define a new mode of subjectivity: “undead subjectivity.” Exploring the implications of this concept, this study locates the undead subject’s origins within a Japanese recession, decimated social conditions, and a period outside of historical progression known as the “Lost Decade.” It suggests that the form and content of “J-Horror” films reveal a problematic visual structure haunting the nation in relation to the gaze of a structural father figure. In doing so, this thesis purports that these films interrogate psychoanalytic concepts such as the gaze, the big Other, and the death drive. This study posits themes, philosophies, and formal elements within J-Horror films that place the undead subject within a worldly depiction of the afterlife, the films repeatedly ending on an image of an emptied-out Japan invisible to the big Other’s gaze.
Ofer Eliaz (Committee Chair)
Erin Schlumpf (Committee Member)
Robert Miklitsch (Committee Member)
169 p.
Film Studies
Big Other; Death Drive; Gaze; J-Horror; Japanese Cinema; Lost Decade; Psychoanalysis

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  • Parrish, J. G. (2017). The Undead Subject of Lost Decade Japanese Horror Cinema [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1502193416130062

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Parrish, Jordan. The Undead Subject of Lost Decade Japanese Horror Cinema. 2017. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1502193416130062.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Parrish, Jordan. "The Undead Subject of Lost Decade Japanese Horror Cinema." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1502193416130062

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