Poetic & Cinematic Evil

Instructor: Jason Mohaghegh Date & Time: March 27, April 3, May 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12 09:00-11:30 ET

DESCRIPTION: This Seminar explores Evil as a complex poetic and cinematic force. Accordingly, we will trace the dark experiments of four specific poets—Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Akhmatova, Georg Trakl, and Ahmad Shamlu—alongside four selected films as they traverse the following conceptual territories: decadence, cruelty, derangement, and mystery. We will note how the poetics of evil can inhabit the literary genres of the rant, the elegy, the riddle, and the nocturne; we will note how the cinematics of evil can feature figures of the deviant, the whisperer, the lunatic, and the killer. Furthermore, we will observe how these creative works apply certain rare techniques of language and image (tongue and vision) that unveil the intimate relationship between evil, seduction, atrocity, chaos, and rage; we will also ask overarching questions about the bond between evil and thought.

IMAGE: Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007

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