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Class number:
1029
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Title: Horror in Film & Fiction |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 29 |
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Current enrollment: 30 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, January 19, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: MTWRF: 9:00AM-12:00PM, N/A |
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Instructor(s): Mrozowski, Daniel |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
The horror genre is having a terrible renaissance. With filmmakers like James Wan and Jordan Peele, film studios like Blumhouse and A24, international streaming sensations like Squid Games, and fiction writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Stephen Graham Jones, horror has moved into the mainstream as a litmus test for dangerous emotions and energies. This course will consider horror in our contemporary moment through questions of its production history, its unsettling politics, its brutal aesthetics, and its enduring power as a form of cultural storytelling. Exemplary topics will include the neo-uncanny of psychological terror (The Babadook & Hereditary), the compelling dread of the historical imagination (The Witch & Candyman), and the fresh energies of sociological critique (Get Out & Barbarian). |