Film, Media, Theater 230AG - Intermediate Courses in History and Theory: 'American Gothic'
American Gothic
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Elizabeth Young
TTH 03:15PM-04:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
126954
Shattuck Hall 203
eyoung@mtholyoke.edu
126366,126954
An examination of the gothic -- a world of fear, haunting, claustrophobia, paranoia, and monstrosity -- in U.S. literature and visual culture. Topics include race, slavery, and the gothic; gender, sexuality, and the gothic; regional gothic; the uncanny; cinematic and pictorial gothic; pandemic gothic. Authors, artists, and filmmakers may include Dunbar, Elmer, Faulkner, Gilman, Hitchcock, Jackson, Kubrick, LaValle, Lovecraft, McCullers, Morrison, O'Connor, Parks, Peele, Poe, Polanski, Romero, and Wood.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors