Vampire Studies Second Midterm

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what are some of the defining characteristics of Coppola's Dracula?

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the prologue compares Vlas Tepes and Count Dracula (like in the novel the historian by Elizabeth Kostova)

The love plot between Dracula and his wife in place.

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Elizabeth Kostova

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-Wrote the historian

-the plot blends the history & folklore of Vlad Tepes and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula.

-Based in part on Bram Stoker's Dracula

-Not a horror novel, rather an eerie tale

-Contemplates the nature of good and evil

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What genre was Bram Stoker's Dracula?

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feminine/ romantic

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What style of film was Bram Stoker's Dracula?

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documentary/ truth claim

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How was Bram Stoker's Dracula written? in what form..

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Epistolary (letter) form

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What other Epistolary works were popular in the 18th century?

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Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa (young women seeking advice)

Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther ( young artist writing to his friend Wilhelm)

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Who conducted the first scholarly study of Dracula and Vlad Tepes?

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Raymond McNammy and Radu Florescu (Boston College)

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When was the 1st scholarly study of Dracula and Vlad tepes published and what was it called?

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In Search Of Dracula, 1972

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What was discovered during research at the Rosenbach Museumin Philadelphia?

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Bram Stoker's Original Foundation Notes & Data for his Dracula.

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Where and when were Bram Stoker's original notes auctioned?

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1913 at Southeby's

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What year were Bram Stoker's notes acquired by Rosenbach?

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1970

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Who is Vlad the Impaler's Wife?

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lived 1430

we know practically nothing about his first wife (if they were even married), except that she was a Transylvanian noblewoman.

we have no name for her.

she is preserved in a surviving oral narrative

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Who is Elizabeth-a?

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Vlad's wife who committed suicide after catching wind of Vlad's impending demise through letter.

sourced from an unknown folktale

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What are some characteristics of the modernist period/ the turn of the century?

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changed religious beliefs, family values and gender roles

rise of the US & invasion of immigrants

Social class conflicts

Urban growth, poverty, crime

technological advances

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How does social evolution and Dracula interplay with eachother?

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Darwinism and the fear of "reverse evolution" compared to Dracula morphing into bats, and wolves. Renfield with flies and spiders,e ct.

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Describe Reverse evolution

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Devolution: the premise that species can turn into more primitive beings

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What is Discursivity?

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moving from topic to topic marked by analytical order. A way of arguing through premises and theories

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Who are the founders of discursivity?

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Karl marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

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Karl Marx

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Communist Manifesto

1848

captial is dead labour which lives only by sucking living labour & lives more the labour it sucks

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Friedrich Niestzche

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1882

The Gay Science

God is dead. God remains dead. and we have killed him

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sigmund Freud

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1899

Interpretation of Dreams

Anatomy is destiny

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References to Hamlet in Dracula

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The Royal Lyceum theatre in which Stoker worked during the time he wrote Dracula played Hamlet in which many people think Dracula was derived from (expecially since Irving played him).

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What year was Dracula published

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1897

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What year was Dracula set/?

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1893

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What effects were used in Murnau's Nosferat?

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the film was tinted different colours to represent the mood and the time of day. All effects were made in camera

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Jungian Shadown

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unclear and underlying forms which appear as motifs and images such as "the mother, the child, the trickster, ect".

they manifest representations

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Dracula's Shadow

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seeming to have a will of its own. It is almost autonomous and acts as an expression of the count's subconscious desires

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Scopolphillia

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derives pleasure from looking

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how is Dracula self-reflexive?

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Films based on Dracula often refer to other films based on Dracula and recognize other films in reference to them.

"Coppola realized that the year of the novel's publication was the same time as the beginning of projected motion pictures"

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Michael Ballhaus

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born 1935

cinematographer for Coppola's Dracula 1992 & won the Chicago Film Critics association award for best cinematography

made many films with martin scorsese

14 movies with Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1970s

2 oscar nominations

360 degree shot: Ring of Fire

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"New Woman"

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reflection of women in society.

the vote, new freedoms, sexual revolution through new scientific evidence

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Examples of Eroticism in Dracula

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Symbolic prenetrations in Lucy's scenes (bites, transfusions, staking)

Homoerotic desire

Polymorphous perversity: vampire mouth

AIDS epidemic & the plague

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Polymorphous Perversity

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the psychoanalytical concept of gaining sexual gratification outside normal socially respective sexual behaviours.

proposed by sigmund freud to describe sexuality in adolescence

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Gustav klimt

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"The Kiss"

symbolic painter in the late moderist/ art nouveau period

painting thought of to be provocative

Some design in the movie is inspired by him and David Friedrich (romantic painter- man vs. nature)

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Albrecht Durer

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northern renaissance painter

his self portrait as the Christ figure in 1500 is how Dracula's protrait is also depicted in the film

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Michelangelo

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the creation of Adam 1510

Pieta 1498