Morbid Anatomy
presents Chris Alexander’s
CORMAN/POE:
Exploring Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle, 1960-1964
8-week online film history course begins April 14th
New York-based education entity Morbid Anatomy has just announced the launch of CORMAN/POE, an 8-week online course (running every Sunday starting April 14th to May 19th) that serves as an extension and expansion of author Chris Alexander’s bestselling book CORMAN/POE (2023).The course will take you on an intelligent and energetic investigation into each one of these remarkable motion pictures individually, with analysis, discussion and debate…and perhaps even a special guest or two! Learners will come away from CORMAN/POE with a deeper appreciation of the films themselves, and a thorough comprehension of their place in the fabric of film history.
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia.
Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman’s adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and “freely adapted”) by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today the series is recognized as unique and sophisticated, one that delivers decadent Gothic chills while exploring ideas of faith, sexuality, psychology and the supernatural. Though each of these pictures are unique, together they stand as a fully realized and consistent creative vision from one of the most important film figures of all time and his crack crew of craftspeople.
Registration now open. Click here for more details!
Dates: Sundays, April 14 – May 19, 2024
Time: 1-3 PM ET
Admission: $150 Patreon Members / $175 Regular Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time.
About Morbid Anatomy
Founded by award-winning curator, photographer, graphic designer and author Joanna Ebenstein in 2007, Morbid Anatomy began life as a blog designed to support a photo exhibit. Since then, the brand has expanded to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, lectures, exhibitions, classes, a museum, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films. To learn more visit www.morbidanatomy.org.
About Chris Alexander
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine FANGORIA and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, and Female Werewolf. He is a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the upcoming Art! Trash! Terror! both from Britain’s Headpress Publishing. For more on Alexander’s film, music and writing visit www.ChrisAlexanderOnline.com.
