In this course we will tackle our contemporary moment viewed in popular fiction and cinema. Taking into account recent scholarship, the latest multidisciplinary developments, we will trace apocalyptic visions of the end of the world in contemporary popular fiction and film, and their roots in the origins of different genres.
The course aims to investigate the key terms important for both popular fiction and cinema: narrative strategies, problems of adaptations and translations, the subjectivity, the gaze, the voice, the spectatorship, the class, the gender, the sexual difference and so forth in relation to the question of ‘genres’, such as horror, science fiction, crime, romantic comedy and so forth.
This year we will mostly focus on horror.
Students will have an opportunity to work on different case studies.
- Nositelj kolegija: Mario Vrbančić