EASIA 422 - Urban Crime Film in East Asia

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Seminar on the crime genre in East Asian cinema, focusing on how it visualizes unseen and illicit networks of interaction in urban spaces in the modern and contemporary metropolises of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100.

EASIA 599 - Directed Reading in East Asian Studies

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 0-3S-0)

May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.

JAPAN 439 - Practical Translation

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

The practice of translation in media, government, and business. Prerequisite: JAPAN 429 or consent of Department.

EASIA 260 - Popular Culture and Contemporary Japanese Society

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Cultural texts and social changes in contemporary Japan. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or consent of Department.

EASIA 461 - Occult Cinephilia: Contemporary Japanese Horror in Film

★ 3 (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Seminar on the horror genre in Japan since the 1990s. Readings focus on translated writings by prominent Japanese filmmakers, critics, and theorists associated with J-horror, viewings include canonical J-horror films as well as locally influential television and video work, and international horror films that J-horror filmmakers write about. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100