CMS 4803 – Selected Topics – The Horror Genre
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Office: Carnes Hall for Music, Office 208
Visitation Hours: MW 1-2, TR 2:30-4:30, or by appointment

Fall 2021 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
Film Terms Glossary
SWANK – CSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – CSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library!
Criterion Channel
Shudder
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
GSU 1010 Tutorials
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
A Brief Guide to Writing Film Papers
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
Academic Writing…
Azevedo – Fighting Two Wars: Night of the Living Dead
Balazs – The Close-Up
Balmain – The Rape-Revenge Film
Benshoff – The Monster and the Homosexual
Beville – Monsters as we Know Them
Bordwell & Thompson – Film Art: Ch. 9 – Film Genres
Carroll – Why Horror?
Cherry – The Horror Genre: Form and Function
Christensen – The Final Girl vs. Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street
Church – Memory, Genre, and Self-Narrativization
Ciment – Kubrick and the Fantastic
Clover – Her Body, Himself
Coleman – Black is Back!
Creed – Film and the Uncanny Gaze
Curtis – The Haunted House
Frayling – The Innocents
Freud – Fetishism
Freud – The Uncanny
Green – The French Horror Film Martyrs
Hantke – Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Audition
Hawkins – The Scalpel’s Edge
Hawkins – Sleaze Mania, Euro-Trash, and High Art
Henry – A Review of Get Out: On White Terror and the Black Body
Jancovich – Horror, The Film Reader – General Introduction
Jess-Cooke – Screaming, Slashing, Sequelling
Knee – Gender, Genre, Argento
Lacan – The Mirror Stage
McDonagh – Suspiria and Inferno
Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Namaste – Sex Change, Social Change
Naremore – Horrorshow
Nguyen – Get Out and the Evolution of Race in Western Horror Films
Olney – Blood and Black Lace
Resmini – Reframing the New French Extremity
Sanjek – The Doll and the Whip
Schneider – Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors
Smith – Enfreaking the Classic Horror Genre: Freaks
Smith – It’s Just a Movie
Spadoni – The Mystery of Dracula
Tallon – Through a Mirror, Darkly
Todorov – Definition of the Fantastic
Toles – If Thine Eye Offend Thee
Tudor – The Sleep of Reason
Wada-Maciano – J-Horror: New Media’s Impact
Wee – Terrifying Images: Ringu and The Ring
Wood – The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s
Wood – Psycho
Worland – The Horror Film, Ch. 1 – Introduction: Undying Monsters
Worland – The Horror Film, Ch. 2 – A Short History of the Horror Film: Beginnings to 1945
Worland – The Horror Film, Ch. 3 – A Short History of the Horror Film: 1945 to the Present
Worland – The Horror Film, Ch. 9 – Slaughtering Genre Tradition: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Wright – Genre Films and the Status Quo

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