The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
Chua, John Soon Leng
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Title
The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
Author(s)
Chua, John Soon Leng
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Blake, Nancy
David Desser
Department of Study
Comparative Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Asian
Language
eng
Abstract
Examining how Chinese filmmakers, through the decades,
(re)interpreted The Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) and
its source novel, Gaston Leroux's 1910 Le Fantome de
L'Opera, in the Ye Ban Ge Sheng series, as well as how
Hollywood and Japan borrowed from each other in the Ringu
(Nakata, 1998)/The Ring (Verbinski, 2002) series of
remakes, this dissertation uses these cases of crosscultural
interpretations of horror to (1) shed light on the
way Hollywood functions and markets in a global postliterate
environment, (2) exemplify and illuminate the
inner workings of the Hollywood movie development process,
(3) demonstrate cross-cultural interpretations and usages
of a genre, and (4) pose questions about the universal
psychological compulsion for horror movies and their
remakes. It proposes that repetition compulsion and
regression to childhood are interlinked motivations for the
repetitious nature and popularity of horror.
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