College of San Mateo Japanese Horror Film Paper

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This assignment is meant to engage you critically by reading one article and watching one film discussed in the article. If the film is unfamiliar to you, be sure to look it up in order to have background information that may be helpful. However, this paper IS NOT a film review or a film history! Similarly, if the author discusses something in the article that is unfamiliar to you, by all means do a little research to understand it.

In your paper, you must:

1. explain and discuss the author’s argument/s in the article

2. address how well you think the author makes and supports those argument/s

3. in your response be sure to engage with the points made in the article related to the assigned film


Please choose ONE of the following for your paper:

CHOICE #1

ARTICLE: “Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory” by William Carroll with FILM: Pulse (Kairo ?? [also translates as ”circuit”], Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001). 

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CHOICE #2

ARTICLE : “Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Social Class and Global Culture in Miike Takashi’s Audition” by Steffen Hantke with FILM: Audition (?dishon ???????, Miike Takashi, 1999)

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Japenese Horror Film

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Introduction
The film industry is characterized by numerous creative approaches seeking to offer a
more entertaining, thought-provoking, and critical artistry. Film in the twenty-first century has
evolved to reflect the change in consumption and distribution methods. The advent of streaming
services has made film lucrative because the scramble for diverse storytelling has become more
diverse and inclusionary than ever before. The horror genre in cinema has been thriving for many
years; however, the western world, such as the United States, has had a significant market share.
Japanese horror is one market that has thrived in its creativity. This essay analyses an article on
the Japanese horror film Audition and relates it to the film.
The author's cultural view on the film
The article titled, Japanese Horror under the Western Eyes: Social Class and Global
Culture in Miike Takashi's Audition by Stephen Hantke open up with an indication of the low
reviews western film production has received. The author's first abject argument is that western
media in the film has had a run in the slasher horror films and mentions films such as Friday the
thirteenth, which have dominated the horror wave in film and only offered the same elements of
filmmaking to the viewer (Hantke, 2005). The author acknowledges the success and increased
consumption of Japanese horror films and relays these successes in art houses as Japanese horror
seeks to offer a we...


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