TY - JOUR
T1 - The Criterion Collection, Cult-Art Films and Japanese Horror
T2 - DVD Labels as Transnational Mediators?
AU - Egan, Kate
N1 - This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2017.1260866
PY - 2017/1/18
Y1 - 2017/1/18
N2 - This article considers the circulation of Japanese horror titles in the West, focusing on the ways in which this is informed by the increasingly heterogeneous uses of the term ‘cult’ as a cultural category employed by specialist DVD and Blu-ray companies. The article focuses on the ways in which the celebrated high-end distributor, The Criterion Collection, have framed a number of Japanese horror titles as a kind of cult cinema which can be termed ‘cult-art’ (Andrews 2013). Through this case study, the article considers how the cultification of East Asian genre films, as they enter Western markets, can impact on the cultural canonisation and elevation of such titles, but in ways that draw productively on their original contexts of production rather than de-contextualising such titles through strategies of othering or exoticisation.
AB - This article considers the circulation of Japanese horror titles in the West, focusing on the ways in which this is informed by the increasingly heterogeneous uses of the term ‘cult’ as a cultural category employed by specialist DVD and Blu-ray companies. The article focuses on the ways in which the celebrated high-end distributor, The Criterion Collection, have framed a number of Japanese horror titles as a kind of cult cinema which can be termed ‘cult-art’ (Andrews 2013). Through this case study, the article considers how the cultification of East Asian genre films, as they enter Western markets, can impact on the cultural canonisation and elevation of such titles, but in ways that draw productively on their original contexts of production rather than de-contextualising such titles through strategies of othering or exoticisation.
KW - Cult-art cinema
KW - DVD companies and cultures
KW - Japanese horror history
KW - transnational film reception
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/44520
U2 - 10.1080/20403526.2017.1260866
DO - 10.1080/20403526.2017.1260866
M3 - Article
SN - 2040-3526
VL - 8
SP - 65
EP - 79
JO - Transnational Cinemas
JF - Transnational Cinemas
IS - 1
ER -