ENG 3110 Summer 2024 - Flynn

This course explores horror films within various national cinemas, tracing the genre’s literary foundations and further exploring horror’s psychological underpinnings, cultural contexts, and universal appeals/repulsions. We will focus on classic to contemporary horror films from around the world—may include film noir, German Expressionism, kaiju, Italian giallo, avant-garde horror, contemporary post-apocalyptic, etc.—and students will attend to aesthetic and formal elements of film study.