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The Horror
Film: Introduction and History
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The Pleasure
of Horror
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The
Psychology of Horror
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Horror seen
through what people fear
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Horror Story
Patterns
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Monsters
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Three
Subgenres of Horror – Uncanny, Supernatural,
Super-Uncanny
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Creating the
Horror Antagonist, Creating the Horror
Protagonist
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Techniques
to Create Horror: Control of Perception, Metamorphosis, Distortion of
Scale, Transcausality,
Multiplication of Personality and many others
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Directorial/
Production/Camera Techniques: Concealment, Blurred Focus, Darkness &
Shadow, Spatial Disorientation...
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Tapping the
Subconscious – S&M, Voyeurism, Necrophilia, Vagina Dentata (think:
“Jaws”), Rape and more
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Breaking
Down the Audience’s Defenses
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Fusion of
Opposites
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Special Case
Analysis: The Treatment of Women in Horror Films
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Clips from
some of the greatest Horror films, past and present, including “The
Shining,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,”
“The Exorcist” & more
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Screening &
analysis of “Alien.”
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