I'm going to be using The Shining in my Spring 2014 Gothic Literature and Film class on Tue-Thurs at 1 pm. The lineup is as follows:
Frankenstein (Gothic, 1931 Frankenstein, and Kenneth Branaugh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death (American International Films with Vincent Price)
Dracula (1931 Bela Lugosi and 1991 Gary Oldman, commentary by Christopher Lee)
Candyman (film and Clive Barker's "The Forbidden")
The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin)
The Shining (King and Stanley Kubrick's film)
Beloved (Toni Morrison and Jonathan Demme)
I've used Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting before, as well as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and Ed Gein. Have any of you ever taken any literature classes with a horror theme? Would you take one if you could?
Frankenstein (Gothic, 1931 Frankenstein, and Kenneth Branaugh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death (American International Films with Vincent Price)
Dracula (1931 Bela Lugosi and 1991 Gary Oldman, commentary by Christopher Lee)
Candyman (film and Clive Barker's "The Forbidden")
The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin)
The Shining (King and Stanley Kubrick's film)
Beloved (Toni Morrison and Jonathan Demme)
I've used Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting before, as well as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and Ed Gein. Have any of you ever taken any literature classes with a horror theme? Would you take one if you could?