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Blake, Nancy David Desser Chua, John Soon Leng 2015-09-28T15:51:09Z 2015-09-28T15:51:09Z 10000-01-01 2004 2004 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. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:51:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3153273.pdf: 14902878 bytes, checksum: 408b3242d46569fa76f4ff27b4e43692 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88569 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 252 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87288 (MiAaPQ)AAI3153273 eng Literature, Asian The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre text Comparative Literature Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.