| Course Title: Intermediate Courses in History and Theory: 'American Gothic' |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: An examination of the gothic -- a world of fear, haunting, claustrophobia, paranoia, and monstrosity -- in U.S. literature and visual culture. Topics include race, slavery, and the gothic; gender, sexuality, and the gothic; regional gothic; the uncanny; cinematic and pictorial gothic; pandemic gothic. Authors, artists, and filmmakers may include Dunbar, Elmer, Faulkner, Gilman, Hitchcock, Jackson, Kubrick, LaValle, Lovecraft, McCullers, Morrison, O'Connor, Parks, Peele, Poe, Polanski, Romero, and Wood. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Elizabeth Young | 413-538-2326 | eyoung@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 126 | Weekly |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Film Screening | Wednesday | 07:15PM - 10:05PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 203 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FMT0004 | FMT-CR: Critical Studies | This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Critical Studies area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ENGL-243-01 American Gothic |
| FMT-230AG-01 American Gothic |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Author: Poe, Edgar Allan (edited by David Garroway) Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780141439815 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 8.00 |
| Title: The Haunting of Hill House Author: Jackson, Shirley Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 15.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |