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170740 UE The horror is social (2021S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 08.02.2021 09:00 to Su 21.02.2021 23:55
- Registration is open from Th 25.02.2021 09:00 to Th 04.03.2021 23:55
- Deregistration possible until Fr 02.04.2021 23:55
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Sunday 25.04. 10:30 - 12:00 Digital
- Saturday 08.05. 10:30 - 14:30 Digital
- Sunday 09.05. 10:30 - 14:30 Digital
- Saturday 15.05. 10:30 - 14:30 Digital
- Sunday 16.05. 10:30 - 14:30 Digital
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Requirements: Active participation (research, reading texts, screening, discussion). (30%)
Close reading of a text excerpt or scene analysis as a presentation to be submitted as an audio file and oriented towards theoretical inputs. (30%)
Written reflection with media-scientific standards on a self-selected subject from the seminar context, integrating adequate theoretical textual bases. (40%)
Close reading of a text excerpt or scene analysis as a presentation to be submitted as an audio file and oriented towards theoretical inputs. (30%)
Written reflection with media-scientific standards on a self-selected subject from the seminar context, integrating adequate theoretical textual bases. (40%)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Willingness to
- engagement with English-language texts and films
- Networking of theory and subject matter in transmedial and interdisciplinary fields of action
- Examination of postcolonial and feminist theory and its applicationAssessment standard:
Positive completion of all partial performances.
The assessment criteria will be explained in the first session.
Performance assessment see above.A selection of literature (primary and secondary literature) and a selection of films will be provided at the beginning of the semester; a topic-specific selection of literature will be made according to interest and updated in the course of the semester.
- engagement with English-language texts and films
- Networking of theory and subject matter in transmedial and interdisciplinary fields of action
- Examination of postcolonial and feminist theory and its applicationAssessment standard:
Positive completion of all partial performances.
The assessment criteria will be explained in the first session.
Performance assessment see above.A selection of literature (primary and secondary literature) and a selection of films will be provided at the beginning of the semester; a topic-specific selection of literature will be made according to interest and updated in the course of the semester.
Examination topics
Reading list
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:18
In this seminar, the interweavings of the horror and sci-fi genres with social inequalities will be examined. This will be done using literary and cinematic examples, which will be examined to see to what extent horror (the monster, the spook, the diffuse threat) negotiates "the social" and reproduces it in a genre-specific way.
Starting points are reflections on the genre "Horror Noire" (Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, 2019), which understands racism as a central element of horror films and produces counter-designs in which racism itself is negotiated as social horror (Get Out, 2017; Lovecraft Country, 2019) - the aim is thus to differentiate horror from 'race' or from racism. To this end, the seminar will analyse examples of the staging of 'race' from canonical works of the horror genre in contrast to current machinations of horror noire. In a second step, the seminar is dedicated to starting points of feminist science fiction literature (Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler). By means of an intersectional and postcolonial perspective, guaranteed by theoretical reading, the respective perspectives on the depiction (and potential overcoming) of structural violence and its meaning in the genres will be analysed. Included is the outlook on Afrofuturist approaches to outline possibilities of a transformative approach to the horror and science fiction genres - which thus by no means only map the social, but shape it.Methods
By means of joint screenings and reading units for a better understanding of the workings of social order(s) in the respective genres and current research literature, the seminar aims to contribute to an intersectional analytical capacity. The (film) theoretical content will be discussed in the seminar and analysed on the basis of theoretical inputs from the course leader and the participating students. The production conditions as well as the narrative and medial approaches of the respective works will be examined.Goals
The students learn to historicise literary and cinematic forms of staging social inequality and develop an understanding of their genre-specific and intersectional forms of staging. They recognise the corresponding discursive system of reference and make a transfer to the emergence of current genre developments and their reference to and shaping of the social.