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Class number:
1049
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Title: The Modern Horror Film |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Second Quarter |
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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 19 |
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Current enrollment: 7 |
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Available seats: 12 |
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Start date: Monday, June 23, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, July 25, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: TR: 6:00PM-9:30PM, 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 |
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Note: This course fulfills the requirement of an post 1800-course/elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
This course will examine the boom in American cinematic horror in the late 20th century. In an era of political assassinations and scandals, economic depressions, unpopular imperial wars, and civil strife, filmmakers turned inward, locating threats within the American experiment itself. Through the work of outsiders like Romero and Cronenberg and auteurs like Kubrick and Friedkin, horror matured into a subtle form of social commentary smuggled under buckets of blood. Their uncanny iterations on body horror, occult nightmares, and alien predators bent American cinematic history towards an indelible darkness. In turn, they shaped an unparalleled art form for registering social fears. Alongside a diet of 2-3 major genre films per week, students will read the deep contextual criticism that followed in this film cycle’s wake. |