CHID 250 E: Special Topics: Introduction to the History of Ideas

"RELIGIONS AND HORROR FILMS" ___ FROM THE EXORCIST (1973) AND THE WICKER MAN (1973) TO MIDSOMMAR (2019) AND THE VVITCH (2016), RELIGIOUS THEMES HAV BEEN A MAJOR ELEMENT OF MODERN HORROR FILMS IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CINEMA, PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELD OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION. WE WILL EXPLORE MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE INTERSECTION OF HORROR/MONSTER THEORY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH SEVERAL FILMS SPANNING FROM THE 1970S TO TH CURRENT FOLK HORROR REVIVAL AND ASSOCIATED WRITINGS IN THE FIELDS O COMPARATIVE RELIGION, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, ETC. WE WILL EXPLORE COSMIC HORROR, FOLK HORROR, EXORCISM/POSSESSION, THE DIVINE FEMININE, AND CULTS. ___ FULFILLS (A&H) REQ