The horror genre is distinctly rhetorical, working carefully to produce visceral effects in its audience. It’s a popular genre, but also a marginalized one, creating space for writers and artists to ask difficult questions, political questions, personal questions, questions about gender, race, disability, queer bodies, identity formation, history, etc.
In this class, we’ll play, analyze, write, and release short RPGs. The shape our games take and the stories they tell will be driven by research. We’ll imagine worlds, experiment with game mechanics, and play-test our own creations.
Digital media and online spaces have both introduced and challenged how we write and interact.
This course explores the intersection between computers, digital technology, humans, and the texts and communities humans make on the web.
What is film? Why do we watch film? How do films “work” on viewers? What is the relationship between film and other artistic media?
Writing is a practice and a process, thus the ‘-ing’ on the end of the word. In this class, we will focus on the inventing, the doing, and the revising--not as much on the finishing, the being done.