Defining Our Terms
August 28 “Introductions and Beginnings”
Welcome to the Uncanny
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September 2
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
September 4 “Frightened/Frightening Children”
What is so Scary about Eyes and Mirrors?
September 9 “Dystopia and the Bizarre”
Down the Rabbit Hole!
September 11 “Defining the Uncanny”
Does Theory Help or Harm?
Parisian Anxieties
September 16 “Baudelaire and Terrible Beauty”
Has It All Been Said Before?
September 18 “Angry Escapes”
The Doors, Patti Smith, and beyond
September 23: No lecture
Individual TA Conferences on FIRST ASSIGNMENT
September 25 “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…”
Doré’s Bad Dreams, or How to Design your Nightmare
September 25
FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE (2-page essay)
September 30 “Control(Freak)ing Your World”
Moreau’s and Rédon’s Hallucinations
October 2 “Eros and Thanatos”
“The Women of Klimt and Schiele”
Cave, Minogue, and Davies, “Where The Wild Roses Grow” (1995)
Ruiz, Klimt (2006) Curtis, The Woman in Gold (2015)
Klimt (ppt)
October 7 “Waking Up”
Absinthe Art
London’s Secrets
October 9 “Daydreaming and Decadence”
Decadent London?
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Chapters 1-3
October 14 “The Art of Necrophilia”
How Many More Ophelias?
Wilde, Chapters 4-7
October 16 “The Beautiful Allure of Evil”
Schoenberg’s “Glances” and Mapplethorpe’s photographs
Wilde, Chapters 8-11
October 16:
SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE (research report)
October 21 “The Price of Beauty and Eternal Youth”
Nostalgia for Your Own Past
Wilde, Chapters 12-20
October 21:
PART 1 OF “DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
October 23 “New Urban Terrors”
Dystopic London?
Stoker, Dracula (1897), Chapters 1-6
October 28 “Old Country Terrors”
The Kindness of Strangers and Encountering the Alien
Stoker, Chapters 7-12
October 30 “Angels and Devils”
What Makes a “Woman” Modern? and Scary?
Stoker, Chapters 13-17
November 1: Special Friday Sections
MUSEUM VISIT: All Discussion Sections Visit the Blanton Museum for Guided Tours
November 4 “What Exactly Is the Attraction of Vampires”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 18-23
November 6 “Does Terror Age Gracefully?”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 24-27
November 6:
THIRD ASSIGNMENT DUE (prospectus)
Moscow’s Demons and Dogs
November 11 “Animal Apparitions”
Images by Steinlen, Bilibin, Vrubel and Repin
November 13 “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”
Outcasts, Veterans, and Bandits
Bortko, Heart of a Dog (1988)
Adabashyan, Azazel (2002)
Sidorov, Brigada (2002)
Repin, Vrubel, and Bilibin (ppt)
November 18 “Scientific Dystopia and the Uncanny Valley”
Cyborgs and Clones
November 20 “More and Less than Human”
More and Less than Human
November 25 “What Exactly Is Surrealism?”
Magritte, Dalì, and friends
November 25
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT DUE (Video Project)
November 27/29
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 2 “Surrealist Film”
Exquisite Corpse and Course Evaluations
December 4: “Farewells and Endings”
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