What’s Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11062247 |
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| Authors | Erin Siodmak (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, corresponding author), R Joshua Scannell (The New School, New York, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 399-408 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x221120870 |
| OpenAlex | W4294605536 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
At a cultural moment in which the horrifying is central, what are the pedagogical options available by which to teach and think with our students? Horror movies, like all media, are mythmakers; media and culture reflect and reproduce but also create or consolidate. Teaching horror leads to new conversations, makes the familiar strange, and gives students new language and tools through which to assess and rewrite cultural and social narratives. This conversation bridges sociology, gender studies, and media studies to highlight the importance and usefulness of film analysis and theoretical texts that fall outside of sociology in developing robust sociological and interdisciplinary dialogue. We review the films, texts, themes, and approaches that we have used to get students to read difficult theory, think collaboratively and critically, and write in ways that push their voices and ideas beyond that with which they are accustomed and comfortable
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Epistemology · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of culture · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Studies · Digital Games and Media · Media Influence and Health · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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