week 10-11 GENRE

GENRE

WEEK 10/December 8^th

Screening: Train to Busan 부산행, 2016. Dir. Yeon Sang-ho

Please read my trigger warning.

all screenings are compulsory;Unless serious situations prevent you from watching the film (even so, you still need to read!). absences from ANY Friday in-class screenings ARE ALL COUNTED.

WEEK 11/ December 15^th

Required Readings:

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, “Film Genres”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th edition), University of Wisconsin Press, 328-349. 2010[click HERE]

Castillo, D. R., & Browning, J. E. (2016). Introduction : Our Zombies, Our Remnants. In D. R. Castillo, D. Schmid, Reilly David A., & J. E. Browning (Eds.), Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137567727.0004 [distributed in class]

Schmid, D. (2016). The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age. In D. R. Castillo, D. Schmid, D. A. Reilly, & J. E. Browning (Eds.), Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137567727.0008 [click HERE]

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REFERENCE READING:
Birch-Bayley, N. (2012), Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie. J Pop Cult, 45: 1137–1151. doi:10.1111/jpcu.12001 [click HERE]