Taking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula as points of departure, this course will explore the proto-cinematic qualities of these two 19th-century novels as well as their afterlife in films that cast these famous tales as emblems of the cinema itself. Films to be studied include: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene 1919), The Golem (Paul Wegener, 1920), Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (F. W. Murnau, 1922), Frankenstein (James Whale 1930), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992), and Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998).

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

• Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
• Multicultural Courses: International Cultures (IC)
• Core Education Multicultural: Global Perspectives (GP)