blog 1 [school project]!!!

• What have you decided to focus on for your Genius Hour project?

- for my blog i'll be talking about the history and cinematography of horror films and how the horror genre interprets and represents mental illness (+how horror movies effect the viewer)

• Why is this topic important to you?

- i find watching horror media to be a big interest of mine. i also really like researching about how media/art effects life and how certain people find comfort in traditionally macabre/disturbing media.

• What are your goals for this project?

-my goal for this project is to take a deep dive on the history of horror cinema and take a more psychological look of the genre and its viewers.

• How will you measure your goals?

-by the end of this project i hope to lay out a clear timeline of the history/eras of the horror film genre,explain the correlation between mental illness in horror movies,and note on how horror films effect different people.

• What you have learned about your topic?

-mental illness has always been a trope in horror media,being an easy way for writers to create a crazy,deranged,antagonist.The horror genre has also been infamous for misrepresenting mental illness into something plainly destructive.

-The first horror movie, “Le Manoir du Diable,”,was released in 1896.

• What sources of research you used this week

-Horror Movies and Mental Health Conditions Through the Ages

-how-horror-movies-have-changed-since-their-beginning

• What’s next in your journey

-Next i'll be taking a deeper look into the history of the horror genre

• Pictures, vlogs, videos, transcripts, interviews

• MLA citation of your research
  

-Mancine, R., Search for more papers by this author, & Ryley Mancine is a second-year medical student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine. (2020, September 10). Horror movies and mental health conditions through the ages. American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2020.160110

-Nyfa. (2024, February 28). The first horror movie & the history of the horror genre. NYFA. https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/how-horror-movies-have-changed-since-their-beginning/