RSSS 315 Tier 2: Eighth Week Tuesday

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RSSS 315 (Tier 2) Eighth Week (Tuesday)

• Vampires and Werewolves Slavic Folklore in Our
  Culture

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News

• Papers-coming
• Topics for today
• New Slavic (Russian) vampire film Night Watch
• Clips
• Carmilla and Dracula

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Aleksei Konstantinoviic Tolstoi 1817-75

• The Family of the Vurdalak

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1814-73

• Carmilla famous lesbian vampire story
• First published in Dark Blue, December, 1871
  through March of 1872.
• Some have said "probably the best vampire story
  of all"
• Diminished Gothic's emphasis on external sources
  of terror
• Focus on the psychological effects
• Lesbianism

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Film Versions The Hunger (1983)
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Nosferatu remake 1979

• Plague played up
• Rats and bats
• Monster attributes of Dracula
• Warner Herzog, director
• German and English version

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Gothic features

• Mystery, gloom, fog, night, storm
• Desolation, isolation
• Animals wolves, bats
• Distant past (unforgotten) sense of nostalgia
• Old castles, mansions, graveyards, churches
  (cobwebs, spiders)
• Mysterious sounds (howling, flapping, scratching)
• Mysterious figures, secrets, threat of violence
• Dark colors (black), blood, pale features

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Literature into Film Challenges

• Background information
• Imagery
• Suggestiveness
• Inner dialogue, monologue

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Woman Empowered Lucy and Nosferatu

• Men are secondary
• Van Helsings role diminished
• Jonathan in a trance
• Face to face with Dracula she is not afraid
• Terms of the sacrifice purity of heart plus dawn
• Does He hope that she will win?

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Allegory

• Presence of evil
• Infectious power of evil
• Only defense purity of heart, sacrificial love

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Summary of literary treatment so far.
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Remarks about Stokers Dracula