Politics and aesthetics of Horror
The seminar "Politics and aesthetics of Horror" wants to develop new research perspectives. Fiction as film and literature with social, political and medial implications will be a starting point as well as the aesthetic structure of "real" (horrible) political events. Our research takes up several creatures and topics: the zombie and other (extra-) terrestrial invasions; the female body as a "medium" in discourses of hysteria and exorcism; artificial, monstrous and (super-) natural forms of life. |