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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42694
Lecture
St Paul: Summit Classroom Building 324
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
Many fans, critics, and creators agree that we are living in a Golden Age of Horror. From new fiction by Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, Grady Hendrix, and Tiphanie Yanique, to new films such as GET OUT (Jordan Peele 2017), A QUIET PLACE (Krasinski 2018), and HEREDITARY (Aster 2018), the genre is proving to be finely crafted, highly literary and character driven. In other words, horror in the twenty-first century is much more than slasher films, body gore, splatterpunk, and jump scares. The horror genre explores the human condition through the emotion of fear—fear of pain, disease, isolation, of being lost, consumed, or prey to supernatural forces. However, horror also teaches us how to handle those fears. According to writer Ruthanna Emrys, “Horror as a genre is built around one truth: that the world is full of fearful things. But the best horror tells us more. It tells us how to live with being afraid.” This course explores horror from early tales like Bluebeard, to Gothic classics by Poe, Stoker, and Stevenson in the nineteenth century, to American cinema’s Universal Studios monster films. The overview will also include the rise of horror comics in the 1950s, selected works by Shirley Jackson, film adaptations of horror novels in the late 1960s and 1970s, such as ROSEMARY’S BABY (Polanski 1968) and THE EXORCIST (Friedkin 1973), to contemporary works by Paul Tremblay, Koji Suzuki, Neil Gaiman, and Stephen King. Finally, the course will encourage creative exploration and publication with an emphasis on burgeoning as well as ongoing horror magazines, anthologies, and small presses like Crystal Lake Publishing, Fangoria, The Black Room Manuscripts, and Undertow Publications. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the WAC Writing Intensive requirement.
4 Credits