PHIL2025 — Theorizing Black Horror
This course will explore Blackness, Whiteness, racism, racial trauma, racial healing and racial reconciliation through the lens of horror film including and centering the Black experience. By analyzing horror as a genre and an art form - making a claim on what counts as art, defining what art can do, and shaping ethics, politics, and ideology - and examining the complex conceptions of race and racism that are reflected in changing engagement with them presented in Black horror we will come to have a clearer understanding of horror, art, and racism. We will also better be able to see the role that horror, film, and art in general play in shaping our discourse on and understanding of race and racism.