William Carroll, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture Visual Arts and Media in Japan East Asian Cinema

EASIA 260 - Popular Culture and Contemporary Japanese Society

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

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EASIA 422 - Urban Crime Film in East Asia

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.

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EASIA 461 - Occult Cinephilia: Contemporary Japanese Horror in Film

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

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EASIA 599 - Directed Reading in East Asian Studies

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

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JAPAN 439 - Practical Translation

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

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Columbia University Press. 2022 July;

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William Carroll

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2022 March; 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.667

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William Carroll

Japanese Horror Culture Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games. 2021 November;

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William Carroll

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. 2020 March; 46 (1):57-78 10.6240/concentric.lit.202003_46(1).0004

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William Carroll

Cinéma&Cie. 2019 August; 19 (32):15-26

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William Carroll

Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. 2018 March; 10 (1):47-60 10.1080/17564905.2018.1450471

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