Defining Our Terms
August 21 “Introductions and Beginnings”
Welcome to the Uncanny
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August 23 “Frightened/Frightening Children”
What is so Scary about Eyes and Mirrors?
August 28 “Dystopia and the Bizarre”
Down the Rabbit Hole!
August 30
Does Theory Help or Harm?
September 4
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
Parisian Anxieties
September 6 “Baudelaire and Terrible Beauty”
Has It All Been Said Before?
September 11 “Angry Escapes”
The Doors, Patti Smith, and beyond
September 13 “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…”
Doré’s Bad Dreams, or How to Design your Nightmare
September 13
FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE (2-page essay)
September 18 “Control(Freak)ing Your World”
Moreau’s and Rédon’s Hallucinations
September 20 “Eros and Thanatos”
“The Women of Klimt and Schiele”
Cave, Minogue, and Davies, “Where The Wild Roses Grow” (1995)
Ruiz, Klimt (2006) Curtis, The Woman in Gold (2015)
Klimt (ppt)
September 25 “Waking Up”
Absinthe Art
London’s Secrets
September 27 “Daydreaming and Decadence”
Decadent London?
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Chapters 1-3
October 2 “Doing Research at UT Austin”
Introduction to UT Libraries
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October 4 “The Art of Necrophilia”
How Many More Ophelias?
Wilde, Chapters 4-7
October 9 “The Beautiful Allure of Evil”
Schoenberg’s “Glances” and Mapplethorpe’s photographs
Wilde, Chapters 8-11
October 9:
SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE (research report)
October 11 “The Price of Beauty and Eternal Youth”
Nostalgia for Your Own Past
Wilde, Chapters 12-20
October 16:
PART 1 OF “DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
October 16 “New Urban Terrors”
Dystopic London?
Stoker, Dracula (1897), Chapters 1-6
October 18 “Old Country Terrors”
The Kindness of Strangers and Encountering the Alien
Stoker, Chapters 7-12
October 23 “Angels and Devils”
What Makes a “Woman” Modern? and Scary?
Stoker, Chapters 13-17
October 25 “What Exactly Is the Attraction of Vampires”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 18-23
October 30 “Does Terror Age Gracefully?”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 24-27
October 30:
THIRD ASSIGNMENT DUE (prospectus)
Moscow’s Demons and Dogs
November 1 “Animal Apparitions”
Images by Steinlen, Bilibin, Vrubel and Repin
November 6 “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”
Outcasts, Veterans, and Bandits
Bortko, Heart of a Dog (1988)
Adabashyan, Azazel (2002)
Sidorov, Brigada (2002)
Repin, Vrubel, and Bilibin (ppt)
November 8 “Scientific Dystopia and the Uncanny Valley”
Cyborgs and Clones
November 13 “More and Less than Human”
More and Less than Human
November 15 “What Exactly Is Surrealism?”
Magritte, Dalì, and friends
November 20-24
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 27 “Surrealist Film”
Surrealism’s Aftermaths
November 27
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT DUE (Video Project)
November 29 “The Modern Double”
The Uncanny Valley
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