Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror

Brief Description: "This collection presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in different ways and academic settings, showing readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Foreword, Glen Hirshberg"--Provided by publisher. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; This collection presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in different ways and academic settings, showing readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Foreword, Glen Hirshberg--Provided by publisher. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Glen Hirshberg -- Introduction: Horror in the Classroom / Aalya Ahmad, Sean Moreland -- Postmodernism with Sam Raimi (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Theory and Love Evil Dead) / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Towards a Monster Pedagogy: Reclaiming the Classroom for the Other / John Edgar Browning -- When the Women Think: Teaching Horror in Women's and Gender Studies / Aalya Ahmad -- Acts of Re-Possession: Bollywood's Re-Inventions of the Occult Possession Film / Sean Moreland, Summer Pervez -- Beyond the Lure: Teaching Horror, Teaching Theory / Brian Johnson -- A Raven's Eye View: Teaching Scopophilia with Dario Argento / K. A. Laity -- The Hulking Hyde: How the Incredible Hulk Reinvented the Modern Jekyll and Hyde Monster / Lance Eaton -- Critical Thinking on the Dark Side / Lisa Marie Miller -- Inside... Doesn't Matter': Responding to American Psycho and Its Dantean Agenda / Miles Tittle -- In the Dark of Your Own Psyche: Jungian Theory and Horror / J. A. White -- Skins and Bones: The Horror of the Real / John Edward Martin -- The Pedagogical Value of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Teaching Adaptation Studies / Ben Kooyman -- About the Contributors -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different ways and in a variety of academic settings--from cultural theory to film studies; from women's and gender studies to postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal to the timeless classics of English horror literature. Together, the essays show readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Includes a foreword by celebrated horror writer Glen Hirshberg.

Contributor Bio:  Hirshberg, Glen GLEN HIRSHBERG received his B. A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction, and his M. A. and M. F. A. from the University of Montana. His first novel, "The Snowman's Children", was a Literary Guild Featured Selection. His collection, "The Two Sams", won three International Horror Guild Awards and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. Hirshberg has won the Shirley Jackson Award and been a finalist for the World Fantasy and the Bram Stoker Awards.