Gothic/Horror Television and Audio

Overview

This module focuses on the Gothic and horror as mode and genre across television, radio and podcasting. While perpetually popular, and often the subject of cult followings, Gothic and horror productions have regularly been sidelined, looked down on and treated with bemusement. Yet Gothic provides a useful framework for considering the spectral, domestic nature of media, while horror provides ways of examining and understanding cultural constructions around taste, society, and contemporary fears, such as those around identity, power and climate. This module will examine the Gothic and horror from a number of angles, considering their relationships to medium, audience, industry and culture, giving students the grounding from which they can apply and develop these frameworks in their own research projects.

Learning Objectives

1. A capacity to understand and engage critically with a range of critical and theoretical frameworks around the Gothic and horror.
2. An ability to devise and conduct independent research relevant to the module.
3. An ability to meet the specific requirements of the module, in research, analysis and the production of assignments.
4. An understanding of the relationship between goal, methodology and output in devising projects.
5. The ability to present research and analysis and argument through both written and audio/visual essay forms.

Skills

1. Numeracy and information and communication technology.
2. Creative thinking and problem solving.
3. Identify, analyse and solve problems by prioritising tasks, coping with complexity, setting achievable goals and taking action.
4. Work with information and handle a mass of diverse data, assess risk and draw conclusions (analysis, attention to detail, judgement).
5. Apply subject knowledge and understanding from the degree pathway.
6. Possess high level transferable key skills such as the ability to communicate (both orally and in writing), influence, negotiate and resolve conflict.
7. Have the ability and desire to learn for oneself and improve one's self-awareness and performance, to uphold the values of lifelong learning and demonstrate emotional intelligence.
8. Demonstrate confidence and motivation to start and to finish the job, adaptability / flexibility, creativity, initiative, leadership, decision-making, negotiating and the ability to cope with stress.
9. Apply and exploit information technology.

Assessment