FILM 4802 – Monstrous Nostalgia
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: A&S G121
Visitation Hours: 1-3pm MW (or by appointment)

Spring 2023 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
Clayton State Film Production BA Suggested Course Sequence
Clayton State Disability Resource Center
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – CSU Library’s Online Streaming Service!
Kanopy – CSU Library’s Other Online 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)
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
Monstrous Nostalgia Midterm Study Guide
Monstrous Nostalgia Jeopardy Round 1
Monstrous Nostalgia Jeopardy Round 2

Lecture Notes
Academic Writing
Important Things to Remember from Weeks 1 & 2
Midterm Study Guide
Ambasciano – Mircea Eliade, Michael Jackson, and the Normalization of Psychopathology
Armbruster – Nostalgia
Asma – Introduction: Extraordinary Beings
The (Cut Short) Atomic Cafe Video Meeting Notes
Beattie – Finding and Keeping: Compilation Documentary
Beville – Monsters as We Know Them
Beville – The Spectacle of the Lack: Realizing the Monster on Screen
Boym – Nostalgia and its Discontents
Bruce – Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present
Bruno – Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner
Butts – The Strangest Thing About Stranger Things
Cartmell & Polasek – Introduction (from The Companion to the Biopic)
Chivers – Baby Jane Grew Up: The Dramatic Intersection of Age with Disability
Cohen – Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
Cooksey, et al. – “Aestheticizing the Void”: An Afro-Gothic Roundtable
Dansky – On the Persistence of Camp
Davison – “There’s No Place Like Home?”: Nostalgia, Perversion, and Trauma in the Female Gothic
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Postmodernism
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Psychoanalysis
Dwyer – Fixing the Fifties: Reaganism, Nostalgia, and Back to the Future
Faktorovich – Slavoj Zizek’s “Subject’s Conception” and “Death” in the Tragic Arc of Leaving Neverland
Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future
Fisher – What is Hauntology?
Freud – The Uncanny
Glass – Review: Atomic Cafe
Goddu – Introduction to American Gothic (extract)
Gomel – Recycled Dystopias: Cyberpunk and the End of History
hooks – Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
Hughes-Warrington – Introduction: Why History on Film?
Illbruck – Uncanny Acts of Violence
Jameson – Historicism in The Shining
Kalinak – “Disturbing the Guests with This Racket”: Music and Twin Peaks
Kalinina – What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Media and Nostalgia?
Kavka – The Gothic on Screen
Lutz – From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History
Lynch & Rodley – She Wasn’t Fooling Anyone, She Was Hurt and She Was Hurt Bad: Music and Blue Velvet
Marcus – Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso and the Art of Nostalgia
Metz – “So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World”: Intertexuality in Ready Player One
Miller – Monstrous Maturity on Mulholland Dr.
Moldovan – The State of Play: Geektopia in Ready Player One
Organ, et al. – “Catching Tears in the Rain”: Blade Runner and the Archiving of Memory and Identity
Osei – Wakanda Africa Do You See?: Ready Black Panther as a Decolonial Film Through the Lens of the Sankofa Theory
Reeves, et al. – Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks
Richardson – Introduction: Surrealist Film Theory and Practice
Rizvi – The Atomic Cafe (1982): Looking Back at Nuclear Paranoia From the 80s to the 50s Cold War Classic
Robinson – The Unattainable Narrative: Identity, Consumerism and the Slasher Film in Mary Harron’s American Psycho
Rombes – Blue Velvet Underground: David Lynch’s Post-Punk Poetics
Rosaldo – Imperialist Nostalgia
Rosen – Introduction (From Change Mummified)
Sacramone – The Toxic Nostalgia of Ready Player One
Schneider – Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film
Schneider – Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors
Schrader – Cyborgian Self-Awareness: Trauma and Memory in Blade Runner and Westworld
Sinnerbrink – Silencio: Mulholland Drive as Cinematic Romanticism
Smith – ‘It’s Just a Movie’: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes
Sprengler – The Nostalgia Film in Practice and Theory
Stuckey – HBO’s Takedown of Michael Jackson
Taylor – The Racial Politics of Gone With the Wind
Titus – Back to Ground Zero: Old Footage Through New Lenses
Todorov – Definition of the Fantastic
Twomey – Competing Nostalgia and Popular Culture: Mad Men and Stranger Things
Vliet – White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture
Wartham – The Nine Most Terrifying Words in the English Language
Wheatley – Gender Politics and the Gothic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca
Wiener – The Omniscient Narrator and the Unreliable Narrator: The Case of Atomic Cafe
Wood – The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s (excerpt)
Wood – The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s (Full)
Wood – Psycho

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