This assignment is meant to engage you critically by reading one article and watching one film discussed in the article

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

1,000 words (approximately)

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 回路 [also translates as ”circuit”], Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001).

OR

CHOICE #2

ARTICLE : “Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Social Class and Global Culture in Miike Takashi’s Audition” by Steffen Hantke with FILM: Audition (Ōdishon オーディション, Miike Takashi, 1999)