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ENGL 2035

Horror Films and Feminism

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2023

Topics

  • Wk. 1, – Introduction
  • I. Horrifying Bodies: The Monstrous Feminine
  • Wk. 2, – Traditional Horror Tropes
  • Film: the 13th
  • Trencansky, Sarah. “Final Girls and Terrible Youth: Transgression in 1980s Slasher
  • Horror.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 2.2
  • Wk. 3, – Religiously Producing Abjection
  • Film: Carrie
  • Creed, Barbara. “Woman as Witch.” The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism
  • Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1993
  • Wk. 4, – Monstrous Teen Years
  • Film: Ginger Snaps
  • Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed.” Western Folklore
  • Wk. 5, – Biting Back
  • Film: Teeth
  • Creed, Barbara. “Medusa’s Head: The Vagina Dentata and Freudian Theory [excerpt].”
  • The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1993, pp
  • Kelly, Casey Ryan. “Camp Horror and the Gendered Politics of Screen Violence

Readings

  • Trencansky, Sarah. “Final Girls and Terrible Youth: Transgression in 1980s Slasher Horror.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 2.2 (2001): 63-73.
  • Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1993, pp. 73-83.
  • Creed, Barbara. “Medusa’s Head: The Vagina Dentata and Freudian Theory [excerpt].” The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1993, pp. 105-8.
  • Kelly, Casey Ryan. “Camp Horror and the Gendered Politics of Screen Violence: Subverting the Monstrous-Feminine in Teeth (2007).” Women’s Studies in
  • Coonfield, Gordon. “Perfect Strangers: The Zombie Imaginary and the Logic of Representation.” Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means, edited by Murali Balaji. Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2013, pp. 3-16.
  • Evans, Susan. “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and Zombies are from…: Feminist Theories of International Politics and Zombies.” Political Science & Politics 50.1 (2017): 554-557.
  • Roth, Silke. “Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump.” Sociological Research Online 23.2 (2018): 496–506.
  • Lazard, Lisa. “‘You’ll like this – it’s feminist!’: Representations of Strong women in Horror Fiction.” Feminism & Psychology 19.1 (2009): 132-6.
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