Your paper will be a thematic overview of the chosen author's work using the selected work or works as examples of those themes you see. You must employ at least two distinct critical approaches, including a critique of the weaknesses in a critical analysis by another author (Biographical and Historical together count as ONE). If you choose a dramatized work you must of course quote from primary text, which means if it was a movie, you need the script. You may not analyze a work you have covered in a previous assignment.
Lyric/Poetry - choose 5-10 works by theme.
Dickinson, Emily. (Any)
Poe, Edgar Allan. (Any)
Service, Robert. The Cremation of Sam McGee
Other (must be approved by Instructor)
Drama N.B. You MUST use actual dialogue from the movie, so make sure you have a script.
Barker, Clive. Hellraiser
Branaugh, Kenneth. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Browning,Tod. Freaks, Dracula
Burton, Tim. Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Cameron, James. Aliens
Carpenter, John. Halloween, The Thing, Christine
Conner, Kevin. Motel Hell
Coppola, Frances Ford. Bram Stoker's Dracula
Craven Wes. Various, esp. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Cronenberg, David. The Fly
Cunningham, Sean S. Friday the 13th
Demme, Jonathan. The Silence of the Lambs
DePalma, Brian. Carrie
Donner, Richard. The Omen
Fisher, Terence Dracula, The Mummy
Fleming, Andrew. The Craft
Fleming, Victor. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenheimer, John. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Freund, Karl. The Mummy
Friedkin, William. The Exorcist
Garris, Mick. The Stand
Hafstrom, Mikael. 1408
Harron, Mary. American Psycho
Herzog, Werner. Nosferatu the Vampyre
Hitchcock, Alfred. Various, esp. The Birds, Psycho, Marnie, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Dial 'M' for Murder, Stangers on a Train and episodes from television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Holland, Tom. Thinner
Hooper, Tobe. The Texas Chainsaw Masssacre, Poltergeist, Lifeforce
Karlson, Phil. Ben
Kasdan, Lawrence. Dreamcatcher
Kaufman, Charles S. Mother's Day
King, Stephen. Maximum Overdrive
Kubrick, Stanley. Various, esp. The Shining
Lambert, Mary. Pet Sematary
Landis, John. Twilight Zone: The Movie, American Werewolf in London, "Thriller"
Leonard, Brett. Lawnmower Man
Lewin, Albert. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lynch, David. Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive
Mann, Daniel. Willard
Marvin, Mike. The Wraith
Murnau, F. W.. Nosferatu
Oz, Frank. Little Shop of Horrors
Polanski, Roman. Rosemary's Baby
Reiner, Rob. Misery
Rodriguez, Robert. From Dusk Till Dawn
Rodriguez, Robert, with Quentin Tarantino. Grindhouse
Romero, George. Various, esp. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Dark Half
Rosenberg, Stuart. The Amityville Horror
Schoedsack, Ernest B. The Most Dangerous Game
Schumacher, Joel. Flatliners, The Phantom of the Opera
Scorsese, Martin. Cape Fear, Shutter Island
Scott, Ridley. Alien
Sharman, Jim The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Siegel, Don. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Spielberg, Stephen. Duel, Jaws
Teague, Lewis. Cujo, Cat's Eye
Underwood, Ron. Tremors
Waggner, George. The Wolf Man
Wallace, Tommy Lee. It
Whale, James The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein
Wynorski, Jim. Chopping Mall
Other (must be approved by Instructor)
Literature
Bachman, Richard (see Stephen King)
Blatty, William Peter.The Exorcist
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man
Faulkner, Wiliam. "A Rose for Emily," Dry September
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery
Kafka, Franz. "In the Penal Colony," Metamorphosis, The Trial
