Early Horror Films and the Dawn of Modern Cinema
| Dates: | January 26 - March 1, 2024 |
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| Meets: | F from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM |
| Cost: | $55.00 |
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Dr. Kara Burns will lead a "thrilling" exploration of early horror films and the effect they had on modern cinema. In this course, we will examine their inception, which was inspired by global anxiety that accompanied World War I and the highly stressful events that followed in subsequent decades.
Early filmmakers found that they could reproduce this anxiety on screen by using cinematography, which combined various art movements from the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries. They effectively used elements of art on the screen to create a sense of "other-worldliness" and foreboding. These early films would ultimately inspire such famous film producers and directors as Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan.
| Fee: | $55.00 |
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| Hours: | 9.00 |
| CEUs: | 0.90 |
Kara Burns
Dr. Kara K. Burns, Associate Professor of Art History, has proudly been a member of the faculty at the University of South Alabama since 2007. She received her Ph. D. in Art History and B.A. in History from the University of Arizona and her M.A. in Art History from the University of Oregon. While she specializes in the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome, she also has a background in the history of architecture and the development of early cinema.| Date | Day | Time | Location |
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