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Terror nicht Horror

Die Technologie der Angst und ihre Mediengeschichte in RING 

Bickenbach, Matthias

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Bd. 0 (2009), Iss. 1: S. 168–184

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Bickenbach, Matthias

Abstract

Hideo Nakata's film version of THE RING sets up a remarkable constellation of technical and spiritualist media that has re-established the genre of psycho-horror films. The film is not just about a ghost story but, unlike the novels by Kôji Suzuki, about a primeval scene of the fear of media that initiates the eventuation of a "video curse", thereby raising the issue of the technology of fear as a history of media.