Section Info: FMT-230AG-01

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	TBA	TBA	Weekly
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025	Film Screening	Wednesday	07:15PM - 10:05PM			Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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: Waitlisted	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 18	Available: 0	Waitlist: 9

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.