Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Topic: Horror and Its Constituent Parts: Horror in Latin American and Spanish Cultural Production

Note: Graduate students only.

This course will consider specific tropes of horror in cinema and some literature from select Latin American countries and Spain. These tropes will include paranoia; space; spectacle and gore; vengeance; found object/archive; bodily invasion; the masses; technology; and the monster. We will begin by considering national and transnational cultures of horror along with definitions, theories, and specific histories of horror production. We will also juxtapose different media and genres belonging to non-horror (political speeches, critical theory, photos, paintings, films, prose, etc.) to trace and consider how a work refrains from or hybridizes horror and to what ends. 

Students will be expected to lead discussions periodically during the semester. In addition, students will begin to develop at different stages of the semester an article and/or conference presentation. 

HISP-S 695   #30393   9:45A-11:00A  MW   CEDRC 103   Professor Jonathan Risner