This document provides a history of the horror genre in film from the 1890s to present day. It notes that early horror films adapted novels like Frankenstein and Dracula and featured monsters. In the 1950s-1960s, technological advances and social fears were reflected in films about atomic annihilation and demonic forces. Stephen King novels launched a new wave of horror in the 1970s-1980s focusing on evil children and reincarnation. Recent horror relies on zombie films and Asian imports being adapted for American audiences.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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3. General information Horror commonly overlaps with fantasy, science fiction and thriller genres. Often shows scenes of macabre and the supernatural tendencies. Horror films often have an evil character, an event of importance (disease/virus/apocalyptic event) Common day horror is usually defined as gory, jumpy and supernatural. Examples of old: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom Of The Opera and Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Examples of new: Saw series, The Ring, The Tail Of Two Sisters, The Strangers and Session 9.
4. 1890’s - 1920’s Horror Georges Melies was a pioneer of the silent horror film shorts. The most notable being in 1896 – Le Manoir du diable AKA, the house of the devil. Japan made early forays into the horror genre with Bake Izo and Shinin no Sosei, both made in 1898. In 1910, Edison Studios made the first film version of Frankenstein. In the 20th Century the first monster character to appear in a full length horror film was Quasimodo, in the hunchback of Natre-Dame. The first vampire themed film F.W. Murau’s Nosferatu (1922), an adaptation of Dracula.
5. 1930’s – 1940’s Horror This ear was influenced by the German expressionist films of the 1920s. In the early 1930s Universal Pictures Co. Inc. brought about successful Gothic features such as The Invisible Man and Freaks. In the 1940s, Universals The Wolf Man was the most influential film of the time, but not the first. Not an awful lot happened in this decade gap.
6. 1950s – 1960s Horror 1950s brought out ‘new’ Technological Advancements. Horrors shifted from Gothic Horror towards Concerns relevant to the audience, which were fears of Armageddon and Demonic Powers. The audience began to fear Social Alienation and living in the terror of the ‘Atomic Age’, due to films such as The Incredible Shrinking Man. Sometimes controversial productions of the 50s – 60s carved the way for more explicit violence in both horror and mainstream films. Rosemary’s Baby was the first film to put the devil in flesh upon the screen. Low budget films seemed to have more bodily dismemberment and cannibalism, as seen in Two Thousand Maniacs.
7. 1970s – 1980s Horror The success of low budget gore films led to the success of films such as The Exorcist and it made ‘B movies’ become ‘A movies’. Evil children and re-incarnation became most popular subjects in 1977. In the 1970s horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene with Carrie (1976). Along side with John Carpenters Halloween (1978) and Sean Cunningham’s Friday The 13th (1980) In 1975, Steven Spielberg began his ascension to fame Jaws and it was being one of the first films to use traditionally B movie elements (mild gore). 1979’s Alien combined the naturalistic acting and graphic violence.
8. 1990’s – Present Day Horror The first half of the 90s brought out many sequels from the 1980s films, such as Halloween, Friday the 13thand Nightmare on Elm Street. Two main problems pushed horror backward during this period. Firstly, horror wore itself out with nonstop slasher and gore films. Secondly, the adolescence audience grew up which fiested on the blood and morbidity. In the 2000s, teen-centered horror was quite popular with films such as Final Destination, Wrong Turn and Jeepers Creepers. Asian horror films were successfully Americanized due to them being banned in China. There has been a major return to the Zombie genre such as The Resident Evil Series and The Living Dead series. Which have been helped on by the technological advancements of the present day.
