Film Studies 220AG - American Gothic

Fall
2016
01
4.00
Elizabeth Young
TTH 02:40PM-03:55PM
Mount Holyoke College
97280
Shattuck Hall 203
eyoung@mtholyoke.edu
96996,97280
An examination of the gothic--a world of fear, haunting, claustrophobia, paranoia, and monstrosity--in American literature and culture, with an emphasis upon issues of race and gender. Topics include slavery and the gothic; gothic sexuality; Southern, Northern, and national gothic; freakishness and grotesquerie; and visual gothic. Focus on fiction, with some film and photography. Authors, filmmakers, and artists may include Alcott, Arbus, Browning, Crane, Dunbar, Dunn, Elmer, Faulkner, Gilman, Hitchcock, Kubrick, McCullers, Morrison, O'Connor, Oates, Parks, Poe, Romero, Turner, and Wood.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
Component course for Film Studies
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.