Since the financial success of the American remake of a Japanese horror film called Ringu, remaking a well-accepted Asian scary film in its domestic or pan-Asian market has been...

In This Incredible Need to Believe, philosopher Julia Kristeva identifies the present as a time of crisis identified with ‘ideality’; historically significant cultural idealizations are failing us, leading to social and cultural breakdown, which Kristeva believes is not being addressed in ‘secular’ western societies. Remarkably, she defends the universal significance of what she defines as ‘belief’, revisiting earlier work on language, literature and the unconscious, against the background of a recent revival of interest in ‘religion’. In an introductory way, this (...) article outlines ways in which Kristeva’s analysis can help feminist readers to take bearings at this time. (shrink)