<p>*ENG102 – M Fernandez [email protected]</p><p>*No Textbook / just 4 readers also available online for free: www.literature.org (enter story name, for example “tell tale heart” )</p><p>Strange Case of Jeckyll and Hyde: (yahoo search term: Strange Case of Jeckyll and Hyde text )</p><p>*Attendance / newclassroom / syllabus (WARNING: Objectionable Content!!!!): </p><p>*Intros: name, why taking class, hobby or personal interest</p><p>* Any honor students w/contracts? </p><p>* Calendar</p><p>*Personal surveys (return next week)</p><p>FOR NEXT WEEK: Read Edgar Allen Poe’s “TELL TALE HEART”</p><p>*Horror (in class discussion order):Madmen (‘World Gone Mad’ + ‘Madmen’), Monsters, Vampires</p><p>What is Literature? </p><p>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]</p><p>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</p><p>First LESSON: Horror literature and film about: ‘World Gone Mad‘ </p><p>Handout: CLASSIFICATION CHART</p><p>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….</p><p>Could you kill your best friend?</p><p>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:</p><p>Look for 3 aspects of horror in a real world event (social, psychological, physical): </p><p>(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 </p><p>Why the filmic qualities? Music? Panning? Only showing these pics and not against US POW’s?</p><p>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?</p><p>Video Clip from Philip Zimbardo: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html </p><p>7 min. Is terrorism justified against a World Gone Mad? Is terrorism against EVIL evil?</p><p>FICTION, FILM: (easier, less political way to indirectly discuss “issues”) BATTLE ROYALE: JAPAN (2000)</p><p>When BATTLE ROYALE hit the Japanese theaters, box office success, eventually</p><p> removed from theaters by concerned parents groups and defenders of public decency</p><p>Koushun Takami, author, 1969 , 624 pages</p><p>1st novel, small town journalist, born near Osaka Japan, degree in literature from Osaka University. </p><p>From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun,</p><p> reporting on various fields including politics, police reports and economics.</p><p>The novel Battle Royale was rejected in the final round of the literary competition owing to its controversial content. </p><p>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.</p><p>Takami was an admirer of Stephen King</p><p>More Japanese students reading the 600 pages in 1-2 days than any other recent novel</p><p>The back cover calls it a "contemporary Japanese pulp classic" ------THE MOVIE</p><p>Kinji Fukasaku (???? Fukasaku Kinji) (3 July, 1930 ;12 January, 2003) was a</p><p>Japanese film actor, writer and director. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and</p><p> died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer.</p><p>He is best known for directing the Japanese portion of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! and</p><p> the violent sci-fi satire Battle Royale.</p><p>Headed the Director's Guild of Japan since 1996.</p><p>In 1997 he was awarded the government's Medal with Purple Ribbon for his accomplishments in film</p><p>Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (film dedicated to) </p><p>______WHAT IS BATTLE ROYALE and WHY?</p><p>1)pulp, </p><p>2)satire of reality tv, </p><p>3)satire of Japanese school exam frenzy, </p><p>4)Japanese "lord of the flies", </p><p>5)horror movie, </p><p>6)”1984” style warning about fascism?</p>