UNDERSTANDING GENRE - WEEK SEVEN A BRIEF HISTORY OF HORROR DR

X 476.242 / Understanding Genre Dr. Beverly Graf WEEK NINE A BRIEF HISTORY OF HORROR

I) Literary Precedents Ancient World - Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BC) & Odyssey (ca.800 BC)

The Bible and other religious mythological systems

Middle Ages - Dantes Divine Comedy (ca.1310 AD/CE)

Marie de Frances -Bisclavaret (Lay of the Werewolf)

Roger of Wendover and Matthew of Paris - Legends of undead

condemned to wander till Judgment Day for having mocked Jesus on

the road to Golgatha (later called the Wandering Jew)

Renaissance Marlowes Tragicall History of Dr. Faustus (ca. 1590) and Goethes

dramatic poem in two parts Faust (1808 & 1833)

Shakespeare Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest

18th Century Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1764) Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797)

19th Century - Jane Austens parody Northanger Abbey and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein both appear in 1818. 1837 Hawthorne -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle. 1841- Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart

1860s Wilkie Collins The Woman in White, The Moonstone. 1870s Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla.1890s - Huysman La Bas, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James The Turn of the Screw, Bram Stoker Dracula, H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau, Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera20th Century - H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch (Psycho), Stephen King, Anne Rice

II) Horror in the Movies The Silent Movie - 1898 double exposure or spirit photography for ghostly apparitions The Corsican Brothers and The Cave of the Demons. 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1922 Nosferatu

1920s 1940s Classic Horror Cat People, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man. 1950s SF/Sci-Fi vs. Horror Them, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Hammer Films Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, Horror of Dracula

1960s 1970s Pushing the Envelope - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Night of the Living Dead, Blacula, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rocky Horry Picture Show, The Omen, Carrie, Alien, Halloween, Rosemarys Baby

1980s Bloody Horror gets Bloodier Friday the 13th, The Shining, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser.

1990s Comic Books & Turning Japanese Blade, The Crow, Ringu, Onibaba (the hole), Kwaidan (ghost story), Kuroneko (black cat)

2000s 2015 Splatter films, Remakes, Sequels, Hybrids, Reality-style and SFX - Remakes: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, House of Wax, The Evil Dead, Remaking Foreign Horror - Dark Water, The Grudge, Let the Right One In. Splatter - Saw, Hostel SFX Underworld, My Bloody Valentine, Annabelle Franchise, etc.

UNDERSTANDING GENRE WEEK 9 HORROR STRUCTURE Dr. Beverly Graf

I) Genre as Emotional Experience Horror (fear and disgust)

II) Genre as dynamic interplay between filmmaker, film, audience and culture at large Horror dares to speak the unspeakable taboos

A) Fear of Science run amok III) Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are the most Conceptual and Symbolic of the Story Forms

A) What does it mean to be human? Defining humanity through contrasts with inhuman, subhuman and superhuman -

1) Human vs. Machine

2) Human vs. Animal 3) Mortal Human vs. Undead/Immortal Devil

B) Where Science fiction talks of evolution and promise of man, Horror shows de-evolution of man Horror metaphor Life is a nightmareC) What is the nature of good and evil?

D) What are the moral limits on individual actions in self-defense?

E) What are boundaries between supernatural realm of religion and psychological realm of science? IV) How does this very conceptual form change the structure?

A) Context setting up the world - psychological fears made manifest - Importance of Social network Supporting characters skeptical scientist voices the audience disbelief and dispels it

B) Ghost and Opponent changes C) Need Horror typically ignores or eliminates the need. Heroes are innocent victims. PAGE 1