Within the subsection of film studies at the International University of Sarajevo except for the theory of film, film grammar and history of film there are courses taught such as: Disney culture basics, the art of acting, film and advertising, ex Yu film, Turkish cinema, Asian cinema, American culture and film, mythology in popular culture, European cinema and the Vampire cinema course.
Based on the model of American universities where the study courses in the field of film are associated with science and modern culture, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lejla Panjeta decided to prepare the classes for students after pervasive infatuation of the broad masses with vampires ( the film adaptation of the series of books by Stephanie Meyer Twilight ). She introduced the course " The Vampire Cinema " in which the study of the world legends and mythology of vampires are taught, as well as the aesthetics of horror film genre.
It all started in 2002, when scientists and professors of the University of Central Florida in Orlando introduced the course to students " Physics in Films ", which analyzed the scenes in action films or those with scientific content ( physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry ). At this specific course, 1900 students registered and analyzed the films such as Armageddon, Speed 2 and found that according to all scientific postulates, the scenes shown in the movies are in reality not possible at all, and the movies Contact 2001: A Space Odyssey they found to be " scientifically possible/ correct ".
At the University of Baltimore since 2010, students have the option of attending Zombie studies where instead of writing essays on the theme of zombies, they can write screenplays for horror movies. The course does not include just simple and usual reading of zombie mythology but it gives the students the opportunity, while attending the classes, to have insights in relationship between the media and the popular culture.
Also, the resent hit of the literature trilogy " The Fifty shades - Grey " intrigued professor from the University of Washington who initiated the course "Contemporary American Culture : Fifty shades - Grey " in which students will deal with this specific phenomenon. The way how to deal with the crime, relationship of two main characters, structuring stories, sexuality, all this and more, the students will have to explain and write in three essays.
At the International University of Sarajevo, students who attending the course" The Vampire cinema " will discuss the language of media, television and film and their approach to reading traditional stories on vampires, its origins, superstition, historical events that have influenced the legends, but also modern and popular beliefs and cults.
Analyzing the movies and series, the students will discover the connection between the vampire mythology and the visual presentations of fear in the cinema.
