Virtual Displays

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Release Date: February 27, 1920
Director: Robert Wiene
Writers: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher

Readings

• "Modernism at the Movies: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a Film Score Revisited," Julie Hubbert
• "Expressionism and the Real cabinet of Dr. Caligari," Bert Cardullo
• "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari by David Robinson [Book]

Häxan (1922)

Release Date: May 27, 1922
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Writers: Benjamin Christensen
Stars:  Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen

Readings

• The Witch and the Hysteric The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan, Alexander Doty and Patricia Clare Ingham [Book]
• Introduction: What is Haxan? In Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible, Richard Baxtrom and Todd Meyers [Book Chapter]
• The Uncanny in Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922)- Benjamin Christensen. [Blog post]
• Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922), Public Domain Review

Nosferatu (1922)

Release Date: June 3, 1922
Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Henrik Galeen (screen play), Bram Stoker (based on the novel: "Dracula")
Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim

Readings

• "The Contribution of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu to the evolution of Dracula," Wayne E. Hensley (2002)
• Nosferatu’s Horror: Early Cinema’s Fugitive Shadows, Emina Musanovic (2017)
• "Nazis, Jews and Nosferatu" [Book Chapter] Marie Mulvey-Roberts (2016)
• "The Vampiric Firm: Intermedial Incorporation in Nosferatu a Symphony of Horror," Barbara Laner (2012)
• The Fear of Death in Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) [Blog Post] Heikki Rosenholm (2017)

Documentaries

Nosferatu – making of – The Language of Shadows HC (2012)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Release Date: November 5, 1925
Director: Rupert Julian
Writers: Gaston Leroux (from the 1910 celebrated novel by)
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry

Readings

• "'The Phantom of the Opera': The Lost Voice of Opera in Silent Film," Michal Grover-Friedlander
• "Object relations perspectives on "Phantom of the Opera" and its demon lover theme: the modern film," Susan Kavaler-Adler
• "The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny," Joanna Aroutian
• "The silent threat: a (re)viewing of the 'sexual other' in 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'Nosferatu,'" Andrew P. Williams
• "The Phantom of the Opera." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica.

A Page of Madness 
(狂った一頁/Kurutta Ichipeiji) (1926)

Release Date: September 24, 1926
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writers: Yasunari Kawabata (short story), Yasunari Kawabata (adaptation)
Stars:  Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa

Readings

• A Page of Madness, 2017, Michael Atkinson (Essay)
• Contextualising Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film, Timothy Iles, 2008 Film (Book Chapter)
• A Page of Madness: A Neglected Masterpiece of the Silent Cinema, Vlada Petric, Film Criticism, 1983
• Kawabata and cinema: the ambivalence of knowledge, medium, and influence, Aaron Gerow, Japan Forum, 2018

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Release Date: February 14, 1927
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Marie Belloc Lowndes (from the novel by) (as Mrs. Belloc Lowndes), Eliot Stannard (scenario)
Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault

Readings

• Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, 2012 [Book]
• "Hitchcock's The Lodger", Lesley W. Brill, 1983
• Hitchcock's Story of the London Fog: A Very English Expressionism, Paul Humble, 2008
• The Lodger, BFI National Archive [Essay]
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog: The First True Hitchcock Movie, The Criterion Collection, Philip Kemp, 2017 [Essay]

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Release Date: October 4, 1968
Director: George A. Romero
Writers: John A. Russo (screenplay), George A. Romero (screenplay)
Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O-Dea, Karl Hardman

Readings

• "Night of the Living Dead." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Philip Simpson (2000)
• Inner-City Exhibition and the Genre Film: Distributing Night of the Living Dead (1968), Kevin Heffernan (2002)
• "Interracial tensions in Night of the living dead," Robert L. Lightning (2000)
• "Philosophy of the living dead: at the origin of the zombie-image," James McFarland (2015)
• “A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist Teachings in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead,” Christopher M. Moreman (2008)
• "Why Night of the Living Dead was a big-bang moment for horror movies," Jon Towlson (2018)
• "When An Undead Apocalypse First Swept America In The 'Night Of The Living Dead'," Brian Mann (2018)

Dark Directions (2012)

Horror and the Horror Film (2012)

Horror Noire : Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present (2013)

Uncanny Bodies (2007)

Horror Film and Psychoanalysis

A History of Horror (2010)

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Horror Films)

Monstrous Nature (2016)

Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s And 2000s (2014)

Halloween (2015)