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Japan’s Blair Witch: Restraint, Maturity, and Generic Canons in the British Critical Reception of Ring
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 48, Number 3, Spring 2009
- pp. 35-51
- 10.1353/cj.0.0100
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines the British critical reception of the Japanese horror film Ring. Critics claimed that Ring was representative of a non-graphic, suggestive tradition in horror, and used the film rhetorically to present a sense of difference from teen horror films such as Scream.