Syllabus
12/17/2010
Monday, December 13th
- Introduction
- Night of the Living
Dead,
George A. Romero, Dir. 1968
- The
Zombie, June Pulliam in Icons of Horror and the Supernatural, S. T.
Joshi, editor. Greenwood Press, 2006 (uploaded
Moodle as a pdf)
Tuesday, December 14th
-
White Zombie.
Victor Halperin
- "Dead
Men Working in the Cane Fields," W. B. Seabrook and "Salt
Is Not for Slaves," G. W. Hutter
(uploaded Moodle as a pdf)
Wednesday, December 15th
-
The Plague of the Zombies.
John Gilling
- Derleth,
August. The House in the Magnolias"
and Wellman, Manly Wade Song of the Slaves (uploaded
Moodle as a pdf)
Thursday, December 16th
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahme-Smith
- Land of the Dead, George Romero
- First
forum posting due in my computer by 11:59 p.m.
Friday, December 17th
- Bubba Ho-Tep.
Don Coscarelli
- David Sutton, "Clinically
Dead" (uploaded to Moodle as a
pdf file).
Saturday, December 18th
Monday, December 20th
- World War Z, Max Brooks
- Fido,
Andrew Currie, Dir. 2006
Tuesday,
December 21st
- Midterm Exam
posted
- The Walking Dead, Vol 1,
Tony Kirkman
- Watch the first episode of
The Walking Dead
Wednesday, December 22nd
- Re-Animator.
Stewart Gordon, Dir. 1985
- Lovecraft,
H. P. Herbert West: Re-animator (available
as an
e-text or in many anthologies you can find in the library.)
- Completed midterm exam due in
my computer by 11:59 p.m.
Thursday, December 23rd----Thursday, January 2nd
- No Class--Winter Holidays
Monday, January 3rd
- Shaun of the Dead .
Edgar Wright, Dir. 2004
- Second
forum posting due in my computer by 11:59 p.m.
- Sleator,
William.
The Boy Who Couldn't Die
Tuesday, January 4th
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
(available as an
e-text
or in many anthologies you can find in the library) and Jeffrey Ford,
"Malthusian's Zombie" (uploaded to Moodle as a PDF).
- Zombieland
Wednesday, January 5th
- Come to class for our final exam, which will commence at 9:00 a.m.