For two class periods per week of your choice, please bring in an analysis of a recent horror movie, tv show, or book. For your analysis, you will write approximately one page. For the first paragraph, summarize the movie, tv show, or book. For the latter paragraphs, please discuss which current cultural problems, fears, or horrors, the work deals with. The more you can tie it into current events, both social and political, the better. Please be specific to the time and place the work came out of: for example, Willow Creek is a contemporary horror movie about Bigfoot that takes place in the Pacific Northwest of California. The film deals with contemporary anxiety around marriage, in particular, the ways in which marriage has ancient and barbaric roots. It also deals with our anxiety with the natural world, which we are becoming increasingly alienated from, even as it is being increasingly destroyed.
Please note how these fears/horrors relate to our specific time period, and the state of the world today. Any papers that are too general, dealing solely with fears that are broad or could be placed in any time period, will receive a lowered score. It's not that horror doesn't deal with timeless fears, and it's not that you cannot talk about those timeless fears (of the unknown, or of death, for example), it's that I want you to take note of how specific horror films deal with particular times and places, and fears that are at the forefront for specific political and social reasons.
You will be asked to share some of your examples with the class, aloud. Be prepared to do so.
Please include an image of the work on a separate sheet of paper.
Total length: 1 page, typed, double-spaced
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