Cure - Couverture souple

Lash, Dr Dominic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1839025948 ISBN 13 : 9781839025945

Editeur : British Film Institute, 2024

Synopsis

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into their neck.

Dominic Lash provides an in-depth analysis of Cure's themes, generic conventions, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, and legacy. In examining the film's aesthetics he highlights the unique way in which it balances meticulous precision with a persistent and purposeful ambiguity. Lash goes on to situate Cure within its various contexts; firstly, as Kurosawa's 'breakthrough' film following a decade of mostly straight-to-video work and then its position in relation to the J-Horror boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Through a close reading of Cure's key scenes, particularly its final scene, Lash analyses the motivations behind Kurosawa's resistance to a definitive resolution. He argues that, just like its hypnotist antagonist, Mamiya, Cure unsettles some of our basic psychological assumptions. In doing so, he attempts to understand what it is about the film that lingers so disturbingly, long after the credits have rolled.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dominic Lash is Associate Teacher in the Department of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions (2020) and his work has been published in journals such as Screen, Cinergie and Movie.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Film Institute
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1839025948
• ISBN 13: 9781839025945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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