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ERIC Number: EJ1351486
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Oct
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0092-055X
EISSN: EISSN-1939-862X
What's Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss
Siodmak, Erin; Scannell, R. Joshua
Teaching Sociology, v50 n4 p399-408 Oct 2022
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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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