"The following preview has been approved to accompany this feature."
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Effects of ratings The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin, 1971)
"C'mon Paul, open the door." Timestamp: 14:00
Secret of the Blue Room (dir. Kurt Neumann, 1932)
"Don't go in that room." Timestamp 00:53.
Strait-Jacket (1964) - Official Trailer (Plus warning)
The Night Walker (1964) - Official Trailer
Chamber Of Horrors (1966) - Official Trailer (Mock Warning)
Lady In A Cage (1964) - Official Trailer (Warning)
Psycho (1960) Theatrical Trailer - Alfred Hitchcock Movie (ends with a shot from shower scene and then of Janet Leigh screaming)
Night Creatures (1962) - Official Trailer
Paranoiac (1963) - Official Trailer
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing
Conventional camera shots in horror movie trailers
In Renfield, vampirism is a metaphor for co-dependency and self-help as cure--though not always a successful cure.
Analog horror: from digital back to celluloid (it can burn, like a vampire): from Nick Cage matchcut back to Bela Lugosi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFVMHPg1bA
Dracula (1931) Official Trailer #1 Bela Lugosi Movie
Favorite part in Dracula 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV5FxM96xc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmO6rmDW08
Goodnight, Mr. Renfield: Comparing the Two 1931 Draculas
Dracula in 4K Ultra HD | "I Am Dracula, I Bid You Welcome" | (90th Anniversary) Extended Preview
Goodnight, Mr. Renfield: Comparing the Two 1931 Draculas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmO6rmDW08
Renfield | Official Trailer
Goodnight, Mr. Renfield: Comparing the Two 1931 Draculas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoaMw91MC9k
Dracula (1931) Official Trailer #1 Bela Lugosi Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2IhYToDY4
Favorite part in Dracula 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV5FxM96xc4
LONGLEGS - The End Trailer - In Theaters July 12
LONGLEGS - Official Trailer (2024) Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage
Theatrical projection on celluloid
Bernard Herrmann Interview 1971/72
Bernard Herrmann interview in1975 with Royal S Brown
How Does an Editor Think and Feel?
Every Frame a Painting (editing has a rhythm 51:50 and is like dance 8:13)
Orson Welles on Editing (editing is like music, it has a rhythm)
Gordon Willis, ASC on THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
Jim Jarmusch in Conversation with Jonathan Ames
'The film industry is gone. It sucks’: Jim Jarmusch on swapping directing for drone rock
The Guardian, April 22, 2023
How Modern Audiences Are Failing Cinema "Cinema as Self-Righteous Moralism" 11:49-42:10
"If It Makes You Cry, It Must Be Good"
Caitlin Quinlan, The Year in Review, 06 December 2023 artreview.com
The Marvel Symphonic Universe EVERY FILM A PAINTING
so that’s why they cut all her scenes from the movie (Film exists as; 1 the screenplay; 2 the shoot; 3 the edit.)
The Crisis of the Individual: II. Terror’s Atomization of Man (1946)
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The Nice Guys (2016) as film criticism.
History as horror film
1974 short film about Ellis Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/ellis-island-immigration.html
Eli Roth on Hostel (2003) as a response to the war in Iraq.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre as allegory of Watergate.
Review: American Horror Story: Cult Succeeds in Making Terror of the 2016 Election
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Recommended:
Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 24: 'The Birds'
The Sound Script 9:50; the birds are silenthttps://a24films.com/films/under-the-skin
Analog Horror
Cathode Ray TV, silent 8mm film; audiotape recordings; children's book
Haxan two versions with different colored tinting.
Häxan: “Let Her Suffering Begin”
ESSAYS— OCT 15, 2019
Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Mental hospitals and Horror
The Tenant
The Ring
The Wicker Man
Island of Lost Souls (dir. Erle C. Kenton, 1932)
Immigration and the Face of Horror
The Face Behind The Mask with Peter Lorre 1941
Strange Impersonation (1945) Film Noir | Full Movie | Directed by Anthony Mann
Murders in the Zoo (1929)
WAX DOLLS and ANIMALS
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Warning Shadows, The Last Warning, Waxworks, The Cat and the Canary, The Phantom of the Opera, Freaks, The Unknown, West of Zanzibar, The Old Dark House, Dracula, Dracula’s Daughter, The Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Black Cat, Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hands of Orlac, The Island of Lost Souls, Mad Love, The Devil Doll, Cat People, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Exorcist, Carnival of Souls, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes,
The Sounds of Horror
Christopher Walken recites Poe's "The Raven."
include freaks in body horro / analog horror Rabid, Scanners, and Videodrome.
The end of anlogue cinema (2012)
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https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome
Scream Queens
Zodiac (dir. David Flincher 2004)
Peeping TomBabadookVertigoSinister
Recommended:
The Witch (Robert Eggers)
Horror Monsters
MAD SCIENTISTS
Son of Frankenstein Official Trailer
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The Old Dark House Re-Release Trailer #1 (2017)
How a Wagner Opera Defined the Sound of Hollywood Blockbusters
Doctor X Official Trailer #1 - Lionel Atwill Movie (1932)
Home Invasion Horror
Madmen
Mystery Of The Wax Museum Trailer 1933
Masked Monsters
Mad Love Official Trailer #1 - Peter Lorre Movie (1935) HD
The Devil-Doll Official Trailer #1 - Lionel Barrymore Movie (1936) HD
German Expressionist Horror Films
The Horror of Being Jewish in Occupied France
Nothing below is required for this course:
Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"
Harkness table
I will be asking you to learn how to do something no one may ever have asked you to do: it's called close reading. (Please do not confuse being moralistic and judgmental--"it didn't do 'x' and it should have done!"--with being critical--"why is the work doing what it is doing the way it is doing it?")." Close reading means paying attention to language, to the words the author has used, the order in which they are used, and appreciating how well they are used. It means paying attention not to what is said but to how it is said; it means paying attention to the structure of sentences and the structure of the narrative; it means paying attention to tropes such as metaphor, metonymy, and irony, among others; it means being alert to allusions a work of literature makes to other works of literature.See Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase," in The Well-Wrought Urn.Close reading is a practice designed for literature, for texts that are extremely well-written. Literature is universal. Literature is often difficult to write. And it is often difficult to read. Not just anyone can write it. And not just anyone can read it closely. (If you do not know how to write a grammatical sentence or how to punctuate or how to use words correctly, you cannot learn how to read closely.) All writers of literature are excellent close readers. They know humongous amounts of (big) words.Do not ask about the author or the historical context. Do not ask speculative questions. They cannot be answered and so are not productive for discussion. Do not ask what the work tells us about some general issue today. Ask about what the work says.
Predatory Reading vs. Literary Criticism
How to Read a Book 1940 edition; How to Read a Book 1966 edition; How To Read A Book 1972 EditionTo sign up to co-lead class, go to this google doc. Do not co-lead with the same person twice and co-lead at least four weeks after the first time you co-lead.Once you have a partner to co-lead class discussion, create a google doc for your notes and share it with me by 5:00 p.m. the day before you are co-leading so I can add my thoughts. Make sure you allow me to edit the document.
The reason literature, film, and philosophy are so great, so deeply admired yet often controversial, even despised, is that writers are free to say anything they wish they way they want to say it, fillmakers get to show images of anything they wish, they way they want to show them, and philosophers can ask philosophical questions about anything they wish whenever they want. It's called FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. As anyone who understands anything about language knows, intention and context do matter. I find attempts to get people fired from their jobs because of something they said repellent and unseemly.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Please expect adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv.)
In order to include all students in class discussion, and in order to make it easier for you to read closely and thereby improve your own writing, We will close read, read slowly the assigned text sentence by sentence or the assigned film shot by shot. Discussion co-leaders and I will call on a student at random and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then to close read it. If the student is unable to read the sentence closely, the co-leaders will call on another student and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then to close read it. We will continue to discuss the same sentence until a student reads it closely. We will then proceed in the same fashion with the next sentence. And so on. Due to time constraints and because close reading is slow reading, we will skip parts of the assigned text, but we will always be talking and only be talking about words, syntax, punctuation, paragraphing, and narration in the text. As we move through the text, we will be able to make more general comments about parts of it. If students have comments to add on the sentence under discussion, they may raise their hands and make them once they have been called on by the co-leaders or me.In order to learn the names of all the students in the class, I will take roll on canvas at the beginning of class. As I state on the requirements webpage, if you are late to class, I consider you absent. If you are absent more than twice, your final grade may suffer. If you are absent four times, you fail the class.Here is what I have written on the requirements webpage:"Attendance means not only being in class, but includes completing the assigned work for each class by the time it is due and arriving to class on time. (If you arrive late to class or if you don't do the discussion questions, you are counted as absent.)Repetition is key to learning.DUE by noon Friday February 11: write me an email at RichardBurtLit@gmail.com with this sentence filled in: "I want to write about . . . . . [describe your topic] in . . . . . . [give the title of text or film] focusing on . . . . ." [what part exactly do you plan to close read?]. Again, email me your sentence by noon Friday February 11. You are free to choose to write about anything in the assigned readings and films that we have not already discussed in class. You may of course change your topic after you begin writing. But the end of Friday afternoon, I will email you back and greenlight your planned paper topic or not. If I do not greenlight it, I suggest you email me. I will then email you back explain to you what the problem is. And we can keep corresponding until I do greenlight your paper topic.
SECOND PAPER DUE by 11:59 p.m. READ THROUGH THIS WEBPAGE. READ ALL OF IT. CLOSELY. VERY CLOSELY. PLEASE NOTE: Now that you have learned from your mistakes in our discussion of your first paper, and now that you have practiced writing twice a week through your DQs, I fully expect you to be able to make an argument in your essay, write grammatical sentences, use words properly, and punctuate properly. Papers that have ungrammatical sentences, mispunctuate, or misuse words will get "D" grades. Be sure to give yourself time to revise and to proofread your paper carefully before you send it to me atrichardburtlit@gmail.com. I recommend reading your work aloud. It's a good way to see what you need to revise. You can also get help at the Writing Program. See also the Plain Style: A Guide to Written English. READ THROUGH THIS WEBPAGE. READ ALL OF IT. CLOSELY. VERY CLOSELY.M.R. James "Casting the Runes"audio / audio Michael HoldernITV PLAYHOUSE -- Casting the Runes GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMASA Ghost Story for ChristmasSeason 1The Ninth Gate (dir. Roman Polanski, 199)chants, songs, curses,
"Sound in silent film Scream in the Lodger to silence orerasure in sound film (Blow Out)reading books, parchment, stones, etc. in horror films.
Linda Williams, Body HorrorCarol Clover, Men, Women, and Chainsaws
FreaksSilent BrownngLon Chaney The Phantom of the Opera two soundtracks
Haxan two versions
The Phantom of the Opera Lon Chaney Rupert Julian (Director) Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Wiene The Phantom Carriage Arne Mattsson (Director) German ExpressionismThe Last WarningThe Cat and the CanaryThe Hunckback of Notre DameSession 9The RingSinister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_9
The Wizard of Oz
Opera buffoWagner opera leading motif soundtrackfilm explainer
Email them in a one word document to me at RichardBurtLit@gmail.com. Send the word doc as an attachment. Do not send google docs or pdfs. I recommend you have the text or film open as you write your discussion questions.TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Please expect adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv.)YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Due January 14 by 5:00 p.m: Second Viewing Responses. Give the timestamps of the shots or scenes in the film you think are related by design to two of the four shots I will give you.In your word doc, give the timestamps of the single shots or sequence of shots for two of the four out of mix, and give a description (around 40 words) of the formal relation you observe between the shots I gave you and the shots you noticed. Email all work for the course to me at Put your DQs and three shots in one word document--.doc or .docx--and send the word . Don't send me a google doc or copy your document into your email. Don't forget to put your name in the upper right corner of your word document. If you want to know how to improve your discussion questions, I will be happy to meet with you on zoom during office hours or by appointment and show you.Example of the word document format for discussion questions due Mondays by 5:00 p.m.:Your name in the upper right corner.Discussion Questions 1. (with timestamps of the shots you are discussing)2. (with timestamps of the shots you are discussing)Three Film Shots a. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)b. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)c. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)(Clip)REQUIRED FIRST VIEWING: Post Your DQs etc for Spring 2023 here.WE WILL WATCH THE SAME FILM TWICE EACH WEEK (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED).FIRST PAPER DUE JAN 2123, Repulsion (1960)
REQUIRED READING:
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