Fantasy, Horror and Cult Film - AHC3803

Assessment 1: Other

Formative assessment is ongoing, and will incorporate essay planning for Assessment 1, and seminar discussion of chosen texts for Assessment 2.

Other

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written assignment: essay on creating an innovative horror/fantasy subgenre, drawing on relevant history and theory.
 

Written Assignment

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written assignment: essay identifying and assessing the cultifying processes surrounding a fantasy/horror film of your choice.

<p>Exploring the key genres of fantasy and horror, this module allows you to consider how cult status has been incited, sustained and marketed. You will analyse cult film through a blend of film-makers’ and audiences’ agency versus structural (film industry/technological) forces. The module explores whether there are textual attributes through which ‘cult movies’ can be defined, and introduces you to how fantasy and horror film have been theorised in the academy (via cultural-historical, formal, and psychoanalytic approaches, along with others). You will consider a range of horror subgenres, as well as creatively assessing the possibilities for subgeneric innovation; you will also analyse the cultifying processes which have surrounded specific fantasy/horror films.</p>

School of Arts and Humanities

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Media, Journalism and Film

AHC3803 - Fantasy, Horror and Cult Film

Fantasy, Horror and Cult Film

Critically analyse a specific case study in the context of theories of cult film.

Critically appraise key theories of fantasy/horror film. 

Achieve coherence in articulating approaches to film genre with understandings of the historical processes of cultification.

Research and accurately cite sources via the consistent use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work.  


Appraise the history of the fantasy and horror genres.

Demonstrate command of an appropriate critical terminology along with bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline.