Syllabus:

Images of Horror and Violence in the Movies, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-04-08

Swedish name: Skräckfilm och våldsskildringar

This syllabus is valid: 2012-08-27 and until further notice

Course code: 1ET032

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: First cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Ethnology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Valid from: 2012 week 36

Carolyn Axelle
It lives again! : horror movies in the new millennium
Surrey [England] : Telos Pub. : 2008. : 191 s. :
ISBN: 978-1-84583-020-5 (hardback)
Mandatory
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Clover Carol
Her Body, Himself : Gender in the Slasher Film
Included in:
The dread of difference
Austin : University of Texas Press : 1996 : 456 s. : 66ff pages
Mandatory

Danielsson Jonas
Skräckskönt : om kärleken till groteska filmer : en etnologisk studie
Umeå : h:ström - Text & kultur : 2006 : 201 s. :

ISBN: 91-7327-000-8
Mandatory
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Grant Barry Keith
Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead : George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film
Included in:
The dread of difference
Austin : University of Texas Press : 1996 : 456 s. : 200–212 pages
Mandatory

Zinoman Jason
Shock value : how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press : 2011 : 274 p., [8] p. of plates :
ISBN: 978-1-59420-302-2
Mandatory
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King Stephen
Stephen King's Danse macabre
[New ed.], repr. : London : Warner Books : 1993, pr. 1994 : 479 s. :
ISBN: 0-7515-0437-8
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