Schedule (subject to change and additions)
Week of 1/11
Film: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
“The Aesthetic of Astonishment” by Tom Gunning
“Fearful Attractions of Film” by Lowenstein
“Reappraising an Undead Classic” by Stephen Harper
Week of 1/18
Film: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
“Urban Irrational” by McElhaney
“Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary’s Baby” by Lucy Fischer
A Companion to the Horror Film Chapter 4: The Horror Film as Social Allegory
Week of 1/25
Film: The Exorcist (1973) (Director’s Cut)
“Demon Daddies: Gender, Ecstasy, and Terror in the Possession Film” by Kryzywinska
A Companion Chapter 2: Horror and Psychoanalysis
“The Uncanny” by Freud
Paper 1 due
Week of 2/1
Film: Halloween (1978)
“Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” by Linda Williams (Blackboard)
“Her Body, Himself” excerpt by Carol Clover
A Companion Chapter 18: Slasher Films and Gore in the 1980s
Week of 2/8
Film: Alien (1979) (Director’s Cut)
“Monsters as Uncanny Metaphors” by Schneider
“Conditions of Pleasure in Horror Cinema” by Giles
“Reading Like an Alien” by Kelly Hurley
Week of 2/15
Film: The Shining (1980)
American Horror: “The Shining” by David Cook
“Gender Hyberbole and the Uncanny Horror Film: The Shining” by Katie Model
“`Real Horror Show’: The Juxtaposition of Subtext, Satire and Audience Implication in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining.’” by Greg Smith
Week of 2/22
Film: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
“Seducing the Subject: Freddy Kreuger” by Conrich
Paper 2 due
Week of 3/1
Film: Hellraiser (1987)
“Final Girls and Terrible Youth” by Sarah Trencansky
“Paranoid Knowledge and Rhetorical Structure in the Splatterpunk Film” by Douglas Sparks
Week of 3/8
SPRING BREAK 😊
Week of 3/15
Film: Ringu (Japan) (1998)
Film: The Ring (US) (2002)
“Visual Aesthetics and Ways of Seeing” by Wee
“Abjection” by Kawai Mitsuko
“Techno-horror and Urban Alienation” by Balmain
A Companion Chapter 23: Recent Trends in Japanese Horror Cinema
Week of 3/22
Film: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
“Blair Witchery: Simulacra, Propaganda and Documentary” by Stahl
“The Blair Witch Project Revisited” by Smith
“The Blair Witch Project Project” by Telotte
A Companion Chapter 19: Millennial Fears
Week of 3/29
Film: 28 Days Later (UK) (2003)
“Dead Man Still Walking” by Bishop
Reviews on Blackboard
Paper 3 due
Week of 4/5
Film: Let the Right One In (Sweden) (2008)
Film: Let Me In (US) (2010)
Reviews/packet on Blackboard
A Companion Chapter 26: Vampires and Transnational Horror
Week of 4/12
Film: It Follows (2014)
“It Follows : precarity, thanatopolitics, and the ambient horror film” by Ryan (Blackboard)
Reviews/packet on Blackboard
Week of 4/19
Film: Get Out (2017)
“That Sinking Feeling” by Weston
Interview with Jordan Peele in the NYT
Reviews/packet on Blackboard
Week of 4/26
Finals week: Final paper due 5/1