Course Title | Studies in Genre: Horror |
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Campus | Swarthmore |
Semester | Fall 2024 |
Registration ID | FMST 082 01 |
Credit | 1 |
Department | Film and Media Studies |
Instructor | Rehak, Robert |
Times and Days | W 07:00pm-10:00pm
F 02:15pm-05:00pm |
Room Location | Lang Perf Arts Ctr 101 |
Course Info | Considering horror entertainment across different eras and media platforms, this course introduces students to the study of genre through a survey of the many forms taken by fear, disgust, and the uncanny as narrative and spectacle in twentieth- and twenty-first-century moving-image culture. We will draw on approaches ranging from psychoanalysis and gender studies to affect, abjection, and political allegory to explore subtopics such as monstrosity, perversion, and the grotesque; representations of the supernatural and paranormal; body horror and "torture porn"; and the alien as other and self. Required weekly screenings and in-class viewing include movies, television, and video games. Warning: course content may be disturbing and upsetting. Prerequisite: FMST 001 or instructor's permission. |
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