IN 146 - Making Monsters

Institution:

Emerson College

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Description:

From origins of Western literature to contemporary blockbuster films the monster has been a cross-genre mainstay of storytelling. Monsters represent culturally-specific fears in forms from prehistoric beasts running rampant in the modern world to the terrifying results of scientific experiments gone wrong. Through a broad sampling of fiction, poetry, academic writing in anthropology, history, cultural studies, and narrative and ethnographic films, students will develop the understanding that monsters do not emerge from thin air, but are manifestations of racial, sexual, and scientific anxieties. Discussion of cultural and historical roots of monsters from Beowulf to Frankenstein.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.emerson.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 824-8500

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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