Description: Contents: Introduction: media anxiety and the Ring phenomenon, Kristen Lacefield; Part I Spreading the Word: The horror of media: technology and spirituality in the Ringu films, Anthony Enns; Tracing the transference of a cross-cultural media virus: The evolution of Ring, Greg Wright; From gene to meme: the rhetoric of thought contagion in Koji Suzuki's Ring cycle, Chris Miles. Part II Loss in Translation: Cultural constructions of the supernatural: the case of Ringu and The Ring, Valerie Wee; Video killed the movie: cultural translation in Ringu and The Ring, Steven Rawle; 'Before you die, you see The Ring': notes on the imminent obsolescence of VHS, Caetlin Benson-Allott; Bleeding through, or we are living in a digital world and I am an analog girl, Jeremy Tirrell. Part III Techno-Human Reproductions: Techno-human infancy in Gore Verbinski's The Ring, Kimberly Jackson; Of horse blood and TV snow: abhuman reproduction in The Ring, Niles Tomlinson; Horrific reproductions: pathology and gender in Koji Suzuki's Ring trilogy, D. Haque; Computer shy: Ring and the technology of maternal longing, Douglas A. Brooks. Part IV Afterword: Haunted networks, Jeffrey Sconce; Further reading; Index.

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