C Horror Film Genre

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Term hours: 54 lecture. This course is an in depth exploration of the Horror Film Genre. Horror films reflect social anxieties, and impact contemporary culture. The course covers the history, technology and productions of the horror film genre along with its influence on culture and other entertainment mediums. The course investigates cinematic techniques employed to create fear in audiences and examines the business of international horror cinema. Students analyze how horror films express character, philosophy, gender, desire, sexuality, and violence in the narrative mise-en-scene. The course investigates the audience's attraction to fear, the history of horror as entertainment and its part in spawning urban myths. (AA GE, UC/CSU, CalGETC)