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In the author's lecture course "Areas of Darkness: Horror as a Cultural Phenomenon" together with the artist and researcher Ruslan Polanin we will talk about horror from the point of view of concept, philosophy and aesthetics. Analyzing horror in different directions of art and media, we will try to shed light on the dark areas of this genre. In the final lecture of the course we will talk about the place of horror in the field of aesthetics and its influence on art. We will consider not only art objects that appeared in horror films or inspired their authors, but also numerous examples of works of contemporary art related to the theme of horror and the creepy. It is important that the works selected for analysis are characterized not only by the external packaging of horror, but by the questions raised of an ontological and somewhere metaphysical nature. Ruslan Polanin is a contemporary artist, sound artist, sociologist of art. In his artistic works he addresses the ideas of new mythology, occult knowledge, historical memory, considering them through the prism of horror aesthetics. Bibliography: "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful", Edmund Burke "The Aesthetics of Film", Jacques Aumont, Alain Bargala, Michel Marie, Marc Vernet "What is Art?", Arthur Danto "Relational Aesthetics. Postproduction", Nicolas Bourriaud "High Art, Lite Version. The Rise and Fall of Brit Art in the 90s", Julian Stallabrass "Formulas of Fear. An Introduction to the History and Theory of Horror Film by Dmitry Komm Her Body, Himself: Gender in Slasher Films by Carol J. Clover Uncanny by Sigmund Freud Movies to watch: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922 Psycho, 1960 Jaws, 1975 Suspiria, 1977 Scream, 1996 The Blair Witch Project, 1999 American Psycho, 2000 The Cell, 2000 It Follows, 2014 The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, 2015 The Neon Demon, 2016 A Quiet Place, 2018 Mandy, 2018 Suspiria, 2018 Koko-di koko-da, 2019 The Lighthouse, 2019 Censor, 2021 Personalities in art: Francisco José de Goya Edvard Munch James Turrell Ana Mendieta Edward Hopper Odd Nerdrum Damien Hirst Hans Bellmer Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon) Allan McCollum Gregory Crewdson Sarah Sitkin Berlinde De Bruyckere Gregor Schneider Abigail Lane Teresa Margolles Andy Warhol Marcus Harvey Chiara Fumai Gabriela Friðriksdóttir Chiharu Shiota Edward Kienholz Evgeny Yufit (art movement "Necrorealism") Alexandra Sukhareva Diana Galimzyanova Rina Volnykh Dania Orlovsky Ruslan Polanin Our website: http://nekrasovka.ru/ VK: http://vk.com/nekrasovkalibrary Telegram: https://t.me/nekrasovkalibrary Subscribe to the channel: / @nekrasovkalibrary