Course Info: CSI-0242
| Course | CSI-0242 Alien/Freak/Monster |
| Long Title | Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Disability In Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy |
| Term | 2025F |
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| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 2 on T,TH from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Professor Loza |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 4 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 10 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course examines questions of race, gender/sexuality, and
disability in science fiction, horror, and fantasy film and
television. It investigates how and why people in different
social positions have been constructed as foreign, freakish, or
monstrous. In addition to exploring the relationship between
sex/gender norms and hierarchies based on race/species or
class/caste, we will also consider the following questions: Does
the figure of the alien/freak/monster reconfigure the
relationship between bodies, technology, and the division of
labor? How do such figures simultaneously buttress and transgress
the boundary between human and non-human, normal and abnormal,
Self and Other? How does society use the grotesque body of the
alien/freak/monster to police the liminal limits of sexuality,
gender, and ethnicity? How does The Other come to embody Pure
Evil? Finally, what are the consequences of living as an
alien/freak/monster for specific groups and individuals? Keywords:Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Film and Media Studies, Disability Studies |