16.7 4th year Ken Gelder. First semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have a first hand acquaintance with some famous examples of horror texts, both fiction and film;
• will have an understanding of critical and theoretical approaches to various kinds of horror;
• will have an understanding of horror as a multi-faceted genre, able to give expression to and produce a range of cultural anxieties and/or pleasures.

This subject investigates various genres of horror in fiction and film, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Attention will be given to form, content and context, with reference to recent theories of horror and controversies over horror texts. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Gelder K The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories Oxford King S Carrie Futura Simmons D Song of Kali Headline Stevenson R L The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Oxford Stoker B Dracula Oxford Films: Hitchcock A Psycho. Hooper T The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Jackson P Brain Dead. Moffatt T Bedevil. Tournier J I Walked with a Zombie. Whale J The Bride of Frankenstein. Wise R The Haunting. 16.7 4th year Ken Gelder. First semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have a first hand acquaintance with some famous examples of horror texts, both fiction and film;
• will have an understanding of critical and theoretical approaches to various kinds of horror;
• will have an understanding of horror as a multi-faceted genre, able to give expression to and produce a range of cultural anxieties and/or pleasures.

This subject investigates various genres of horror in fiction and film, from the late 19th century to the present day. Attention will be given to form, content and context, with reference to recent theories of horror and controversies over horror texts. Written work of not more than 6000-words. Gelder K The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories Oxford. King S Carrie Futura. Simmons D Song of Kali Headline. Stevenson R L The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Oxford. Stoker B Dracula Oxford Films: Hitchcock A Psycho. Hooper T The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Jackson P Brain Dead. Moffatt T Bedevil. Tournier J I Walked with a Zombie. Whale J The Bride of Frankenstein. Wise R The Haunting.