Exploring Genre: Horror

Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students in middle and senior secondary years, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts with:

• background information
• information about text and context
• ideas on genre conventions, representation of themes, characters, style
• suggestions and strategies for dealing with the texts
• a wide range of student activities to suit different year levels, with emphasis on what is being said and how it is being said, with questions
• response tasks

Exploring Genre: Horror is an invaluable resource with in depth analysis and student exercises to help students analyse, question, interpret and articulate their understanding of the text.

Contents

Genre

• Defining Horror
• Defining Genre
• Gothic Horror
• Typical Gothic Conventions and Motifs

Monsters, Vampires and Aliens

• Beowulf-epic poem
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• Salem's Lot ( extract) - Stephen King
• The War of the Worlds (Radio Play)
• Howard Koch
• The War of the Worlds (novel extracts)
• H.G.Wells

Supernatural, Surreal and Macabre

• Porphyria's lover - Browning
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
• Strange Fits of Passion –Wordsworth
• The Red Room - H.G.Wells
• The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart & The Raven - Poe
• Chronic Ward - Skrzynecki
• Thriller - Michael Jackson
• They call me the Wild Rose - Minogue Cabe

Film Horror

• Film Genre
• Nosferatu – Murnau
• The Mummy
• Pyscho & The Birds – Hitchcock
• Appropriations- Dracula & Buffy
• Film Glossary
• Writing Horror