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*No Textbook / just 4 readers also available online for free: www.literature.org (enter story name, for example “tell tale heart” )

Strange Case of Jeckyll and Hyde: (yahoo search term: Strange Case of Jeckyll and Hyde text )

*Attendance / newclassroom / syllabus (WARNING: Objectionable Content!!!!):

*Intros: name, why taking class, hobby or personal interest

* Any honor students w/contracts?

* Calendar

*Personal surveys (return next week)

FOR NEXT WEEK: Read Edgar Allen Poe’s “TELL TALE HEART”

*Horror (in class discussion order):Madmen (‘World Gone Mad’ + ‘Madmen’), Monsters, Vampires

What is Literature?

Horror = [the social] the abnormal, atypical, or extreme conflict (‘Evil’ Action, victimization, brutal exercise of power) + [the psychological] Fear/Grotesque/breakdown + [the physical] [actions on the body]

Horror lit and film as storytelling (Joyride & stimulation, safe escapism) OR Message dominant (lesson, education, roleplay) or visual/visceral-descriptive illustration of Evil (What goes on in Hell?) WORLD GONE MAD/ GROUP MADNESS

First LESSON: Horror literature and film about: ‘World Gone Mad‘

Handout: CLASSIFICATION CHART

QUESTION: Do people still have personal responsibility if the world has gone mad? Is the system guilty or each individual guilty within it? Nazi soldier vs Nazi command….

Could you kill your best friend?

If the world is insane, is it dumb to be traditionally ‘heroic’ to the point of losing/suffering/dying? The guy/girl who escapes the haunted house but returns to try to find a friend? Report bullying? Report a drug dealer in your neighborhood? If you are a prisoner, to report a rape in prison of someone you don’t know? Abu Ghraib whistleblower? Is traditional heroism (rules, morals never bend) actually insane or dysfunctional in a ‘World Gone Mad?’ NON FICTION:

Look for 3 aspects of horror in a real world event (social, psychological, physical):

(Abu Ghraib clip…) Justified Horror or Propaganda against a necessary evil (evil to defeat evil)… http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html

Why the filmic qualities? Music? Panning? Only showing these pics and not against US POW’s?

In a World Gone Mad there is the “Lucifer Effect:” Madness (especially as brutality) grows in small steps until it dominates a group and becomes ‘A World Gone Madder’ … People can choose to become monsters or heroes, even if the situation is INSANE/OUT OF CONTROL?

Video Clip from Philip Zimbardo: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html

7 min. Is terrorism justified against a World Gone Mad? Is terrorism against EVIL evil?

FICTION, FILM: (easier, less political way to indirectly discuss “issues”) BATTLE ROYALE: JAPAN (2000)

When BATTLE ROYALE hit the Japanese theaters, box office success, eventually

removed from theaters by concerned parents groups and defenders of public decency

Koushun Takami, author, 1969 , 624 pages

1st novel, small town journalist, born near Osaka Japan, degree in literature from Osaka University.

From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun,

reporting on various fields including politics, police reports and economics.

The novel Battle Royale was rejected in the final round of the literary competition owing to its controversial content.

It went on to become a bestseller when finally released in 1999, and a year later, was made into a manga and a feature film.

Takami was an admirer of Stephen King

More Japanese students reading the 600 pages in 1-2 days than any other recent novel

The back cover calls it a "contemporary Japanese pulp classic" ------THE MOVIE

Kinji Fukasaku (???? Fukasaku Kinji) (3 July, 1930 ;12 January, 2003) was a

Japanese film actor, writer and director. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and

died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer.

He is best known for directing the Japanese portion of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! and

the violent sci-fi satire Battle Royale.

Headed the Director's Guild of Japan since 1996.

In 1997 he was awarded the government's Medal with Purple Ribbon for his accomplishments in film

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (film dedicated to)

______WHAT IS BATTLE ROYALE and WHY?

1)pulp,

2)satire of reality tv,

3)satire of Japanese school exam frenzy,

4)Japanese "lord of the flies",

5)horror movie,

6)”1984” style warning about fascism?