FNMS 242 - Horror Film and the Unruly Body

Horror films often treat marginalized bodies as monstrous “Others.” Histories of stigmatization, however, are only part of the story. Minority audiences have always enjoyed and critiqued the horror genre, and filmmakers from James Whales (Frankenstein) to Jordan Peele (Get Out) have appropriated the genre to their own ends. This course will explore how unruly bodies—women, people of color, queer populations, and disabled groups—have defined the horror film in front of the camera, and increasingly, how they have moved behind the camera to create their own tales of power, fear, irony, and identity.

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars