Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment
of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in
relation to world horror cinema. Neither a conventional film history nor a thematic survey of
Japanese horror cinema this study offers a transnational analysis of selected films from new
angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of the genre including sound design
framing techniques and lighting as well as the slow attack and long release times of
J-horror's slow-burn style which have contributed significantly to the development of its
dread-filled cinema of sensations.
