Course details

Name: ENFL - 260

Title: MAJOR FILM GENRES

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will focus on the horror film in Hollywood and Independent filmmaking, as well as international cinemas. It will offer a survey of the horror film across different traditions and movements, with an examination of its codes and conventions, including thematic concerns, narrative devices and cinematic techniques, within different historical, social, cultural, industrial and technological contexts, in addition to the influences of individual directors or studios. Films likely to be screened include Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922), Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980), Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1999) and The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999).

Last updated on 2023-10-22 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Monday From 9:45 am To 12:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)

Teaching Faculty: Morgan Michael (morganm)

Is course canceled: No