| In the the late 1990s,J-Horror film made its debut on the global film stage,bringing about the Hollywood remake craze in the next more than 10 years.As a unique faction of the horror genre,J-Horror film is regarded as a major innovation in the field of horror film:it is characterized by its cross-cultural characteristics of integrating horror strategies between the East and West,and its serious reflection on human identity in post-modern society.J-Horror film has explored the unique phantom spectacle,daily horror and media perspective,which have inspired the future creators of the horror genre,and to some extent have made a suggestive answer to the issue of "how to define human" in the post-modern context.Although the creation of J-Horror film has shown a decadence trend in recent years,the classic texts are still regarded as the negative portrayal of contemporary social anxiety and crisis,continuing to play an incalculable terrorist influence.Human and ghost as the usual narrative subjects of J-Horror film,presenting the two poles of the normal-abnormal balance in common sense,while through the slow suspense narrative,these two subjects walk towards each other from the two sides of the opposite line,breaking the boundary of binary opposition and gradually blurring to heal.In this process,two subjects start to transform,where the sense of terror quietly breeds.As a carrier of terror,ghosts show the forgotten history in their bodies,invade neglected spaces,and challenge the rule of everyday life from the blind zone of human perception.By gradually eroding the space and time,which are constructed by body perception,and reversing the visual power relationship of look/to-be-looked-at,the ghost transfer the human subject into a passive powerless object,waiting for the predeterminate death.The terror body stands at the memory abyss and the edge of power,desperately gazing the people who are suffering the post-modern identity anxiety.This gaze radiates to the gender level,which brings about the feminine tradition highlighted in J-Horror film.By erasing men’s viewing status and enhancing women’s visual power,the feminine ghosts rebelle against the gender political model in the patriarchal society with their horror bodies,which constituted a metaphor for the disintegrating state of the contemporary social power structure.The binary opposition represented by the gender model began to dissolve gradually in the late stages of the development,with ghost and human becoming two sides of the same body.The medium that blurs the real/virtual boundary is an important catalyst for this combined reaction,and it also provides a new type of terrorist production mode:the postmodern ghost body gradually becomes a quasi-image virus detached from its origin,infecting humans through meida,plunging them into an implosion identity trap,The post-human identity crisis has thus been presented in a figurative sense.This essay takes the extremely important body perspective of horror genre as an entry point.The three encounters,influences and mutual transformations of the three different types of bodies,the ghost body,the human body and the audience body,make up the basic framework for studying J-Horror film,through which I try to find out the origin of "the horror of realism".Meanwhile,based on the social context,I will also take the gender issues in the film body and the post-modern identity issue into account,which I hope will help to explore J-Horror film’s attitude and thinking on the crisis of the post-human identity. |
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