Defining Our Terms
August 26 “Introductions and Beginnings”
Welcome to the Uncanny
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August 31 “Frightened/Frightening Children”
What is so Scary about Eyes and Mirrors?
September 2 “Dystopia and the Bizarre”
Down the Rabbit Hole!
September 7
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
September 9 “Defining the Uncanny”
Does Theory Help or Harm?
Parisian Anxieties
September 14 “Baudelaire and Terrible Beauty”
Has It All Been Said Before?
September 16 “Angry Escapes”
The Doors, Patti Smith, and beyond
September 21 “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…”
Doré’s Bad Dreams, or How to Design your Nightmare
September 21
FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE (2-page essay)
September 23 “Control(Freak)ing Your World”
Moreau’s and Rédon’s Hallucinations
September 28 “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)
September 30 “Waking Up”
Absinthe Art
London’s Secrets
October 5 “Daydreaming and Decadence”
Decadent London?
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Chapters 1-3
October 7 “The Art of Necrophilia”
How Many More Ophelias?
Wilde, Chapters 4-7
October 12 “The Beautiful Allure of Evil”
Schoenberg’s “Glances” and Mapplethorpe’s photographs
Wilde, Chapters 8-11
October 12:
SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE (research report)
October 14 “The Price of Beauty and Eternal Youth”
Nostalgia for Your Own Past
Wilde, Chapters 12-20
October 14:
PART 1 OF “DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
October 19 “New Urban Terrors”
Dystopic London?
Stoker, Dracula (1897), Chapters 1-6
October 21 “Old Country Terrors”
The Kindness of Strangers and Encountering the Alien
Stoker, Chapters 7-12
October 26 “Angels and Devils”
What Makes a “Woman” Modern? and Scary?
Stoker, Chapters 13-17
October 28 “What Exactly Is the Attraction of Vampires”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 18-23
November 2 “Does Terror Age Gracefully?”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 24-27
November 2:
THIRD ASSIGNMENT DUE (prospectus)
Moscow’s Demons and Dogs
November 4 “Animal Apparitions”
Images by Steinlen, Bilibin, Vrubel and Repin
November 9 “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 11 “Scientific Dystopia and the Uncanny Valley”
Cyborgs and Clones
November 16 “More and Less than Human”
More and Less than Human
November 18 “What Exactly Is Surrealism?”
Magritte, Dalì, and friends
November 23 “Surrealist Film”
Surrealism’s Aftermaths
November 23
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT DUE (Video Project)
November 25/29
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 30 “The Modern Double”
The Uncanny Valley
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