Lecture 1 And Nosferatu

Question 1

What are the 2 things movies can do to fears?

Answer 1

1- they can reflect what is scary right now

2- they teach people what to be scared of, or influence it

Question 2

True or false, visual culture has been dominant over oral/textual culture in the western world for at least the past 2 centuries

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is iconography?

Answer 3

Visual images or symbols that are associated with a genre

Question 4

What do you look for to classify something as a genre?

Answer 4

Setting
Narration type
Archetypes
GENRE CONVENTIONS

Question 5

Explain marginalization of horror

Answer 5

Horror seemed unworthy as a genre, or as a subject

Question 6

What does abject mean?

Answer 6

That it disturbs or rejects social reason

Question 7

Explain what body genres are

Answer 7

Porn, horror, or melodramas, they all have an effect on your body

Question 8

True or false, what people are scared of is not building in extremity

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What counts as a horror film?

Answer 9

Basically how people talk about it, what is horrifying for people who love horror movies?

Question 10

What would be considered “an introduction of a weird element to something that is comfortable and usual”?

Answer 10

The uncanny

Question 11

True or false, the pleasures of horror come out of something familiar

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What is gothic fiction?

Answer 12

Genre or literary mode that combines aspects of the medieval romance with the macabre

Question 13

What was so interesting about Walpole?

Answer 13

He lied and said that his first book was actually discovered

Question 14

What is an epistolary novel?

Answer 14

A book framed as letter between individuals

Question 15

Identify 4 elements of gothic fiction

Answer 15

Gloomy
Often haunted houses or gothic architecture
Curses 
Entrapment 
Romance

Question 16

Identity 2 examples of fake documentation in current times

Answer 16

Paranormal activity, Blair Witch Project, or something that was “based on a true story”

Question 17

Explain some characteristics of German Expressionist films

Answer 17

Jerky movements or exaggerated acting
Broken lines
Distorted shapes
Non-naturalistic figures

Question 18

Who directed Nosferatu?

Answer 18

Mutant

Question 19

Why would Nosferatu be considered transitional?

Answer 19

Moving from German expressionism to no objectivity

Question 20

What is the decent myth?

Answer 20

When characters start in a state of innocence and learn a terrible reality etc and are either destroyed or emerge wiser and sadder