Nitrate Horrors!: 2010

Soon we shall be kicking-off another season of silent cinema lectures. Here's the flyer for this spring, and I've added a new link to an interesting silent-horror blog in the link area.

The Class Schedule

AUG.31-Intro. review/Melies/Edison's "Frankenstein" lecture and discussion. Assigned reading-CHAPTER 1: SEEDS OF TERROR.

SEP.7-Films of Germany: WWI/Weimar Republic. "The Golem", "Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages", "The Hands of Orlac", "The Man Who Laughed", "Metropolis", "M", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu". Film: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Assigned reading-CHAPTER 2: THE DARK GERMAN SOUL.

SEP.14-Film/lecture: "Nosferatu". Discussion of readings.

SEP.21-Film/lecture: "Metropolis". Optional topics for paper discussed. Assigned reading-CHAPTER 3: EUROPEAN EVIL.

SEP.28-FIRST TEST: THE GERMAN FILMS.

OCT.5-Begin second section: The Films of Lon Chaney and the Americans. Short clips from "Jekyll & Hyde", discussions and clips on "dark house" mystery films. Discussion on "London After Midnight", the lost Chaney classic, and viewing of "He Who Gets Slapped".

OCT.12-CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO ART HISTORY MUSEUM TRIP. Go on this trip if at all possible!

OCT.19-MID-SEMESTER: The United States-Edgar Allan Poe, WWI, Surrealism, Harry Houdini and the influence of stage magic, the "Jazz Age" and youth culture. Horror meets comedy: Sennett, Keystone, Roach and the melding of humor and horror. Film viewed: "The Phantom of the Opera". Assigned readings: CHAPTER 4: AMERICA THE HIDEOUS.

OCT.26-Film and discussion: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Collect tentative research and bibliography and thesis statement for topical paper. Assigned readings: CHAPTER 5: GENIUS OF THE GROTESQUE/CHAPTER 6: THE WEIRDEST SHOW ON EARTH.

NOV.2-Dark House Movies and the comedies of Hal Roach and Max Sennett. Film "The Old Dark House". Hand back thesis.

NOV.9-Test over the American section and the films of Lon Chaney (Chaney, Houdini, stage magic and the carnival/sideshow phenomenon, comedy and it's development, "Dark House" films, "The Phantom of the Opera", "He Who Gets Slapped", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and the "Old Dark House").

NOV.16-Lecture, discussion and "Dracula". Assigned readings: CHAPTER 7: THE SILENT ROAR.

NOV.23-THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY-NO CLASS.

NOV.30-Lecture, discussion and "Frankenstein". Assigned readings; CHAPTER 8: OLD DARK HOUSES.

DEC.7-RESEARCH PAPER DUE. Lecture on the "Shock Theatre" package and monster movie transition to television. Class review of the entire material in preparation for final exam. Film clips may be reviewed.

DEC.14-Third test (final exam).

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