This module will explore the relationship between filmic and televisual horror through a global, transmedia and transnational perspective. While the beginning of cinematic horror can be traced back to the cinematic adaptation of stage plays of literary classics including Bram Stoker's Dracula and Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, contemporary horroris as much televisual as it is filmic with television series based upon films and vice-versa as the recent success of Bates Motel, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Hannibal on the small screen and the X-Files films on the large screen demonstrate. In addition, cult Japanese films including Ring and Ju-On were preceded and anteceded by television series, while One Missed Call (Nakata: 2002) gave rise to a short-run series in 2005. Furthermore, the success of K-horror on the global stage revitalised the television series Hometown Legends/Korean Ghost stories in 2009 which is based upon traditional myths and folk tales. Finally, the Master of Horror television series which ran for two seasons (2005-2007), had episodes by Dario Argento (Jenifer & Pelts), Miike (Imprint) and Nsuruta (Dream Cruise). As such, this module is concerned with modern horror as both a global and local product and a televisual as well as cinematic genre.
The module will be taught in 3 hourly weekly interactive workshops, with additional timetabled screenings in TB1. Students will then undertake their own individual research projects under supervision in preparation for submission of their video essay. There will be work in progress workshops and academic writing skills workshops in TB2 to enable the students to continue their research with appropriate support and supervision, leading to the final essay that is the culmination of their project.
Definitive UNISTATS Category | Indicative Description | Hours |
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Scheduled learning and teaching | Lecture/seminars | 30 |
Scheduled learning and teaching | Screenings | Tutor to schedule |
Scheduled learning and teaching | Tutorials: 5 x 0.5 | 3 |
Total (number of credits x 10) | 300 |
The assessment strategy is designed to require students to think about the topic of the module in analytical, academic and original ways and to explore a Television Studies subject in greater depth and breadth than other modules permit, while encouraging students to critically reflect on the process itself.
Learning Outcome | Assessment Strategy |
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Display a detailed knowledge of a specialist topic in Television Studies | Assessed summatively through the video essay and extended written essay, and also formatively through discussion in workshops and tutorials. |
Show an understanding of the ways in which the topic relates to relevant and topical cultural, historical and theoretical contexts and debates. | Assessed summatively through the video essay and extended written essay, and also formatively through discussion in workshops and tutorials. |
Demonstrate the ability to work independent and to manage their time effectively. | These abilities are summatively assessed through the video essay and final essay and also formatively during workshops, individual tutorials and structured feedback sessions. |
Demonstrate the ability to conceptualise and structure an extended argumentative essay | Assessed summatively in the final essay |
Demonstrate the ability to produce a video essay that critically reflects on the research and writing process. | Assessed summatively in the video essay |
Description of Assessment | Definitive UNISTATS Categories | Percentage |
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Coursework-1 | Video Essay | 40 |
Coursework-2 | 5,000 word Essay | 60 |
Total (to equal 100%) | 100% |
It IS NOT a requirement that any major assessment category is passed separately in order to achieve an overall pass for the module
Jowett, L. & Abbot, S. (2013), TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen, I.B. Tauris: London and New York.
Ndalianis, A. (2012), The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses, McFarland: North Carolina.
Schneider, S. J and Williams, T. (2005), Horror International, Wayne University State Press: Detroit.
Wheatley, H. (2006), Gothic Television, Manchester: Manchester University Press.