NATS 1560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Horror Film, Vampire, Johann Gottfried Herder
14 Nov 2016
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Week 6: fairy tale motifs in horror and suspense films. Effectively centre on the dark side of life. Deal with our most primal nature and its fear. Hoffman is considered most influential for horror genre. Difference in the first and last edition of the household and children tales. Perceived the violence material in deliberate editorial policy though they were not reluctant to censor sexual allusions. Grimm made a point of adding violent episodes. Fairytales- historically in times of poverty created fairytales to forget about their harsh life. Those struggling under difficult condition created fairy tales authorizing heroes to acquire power at any cost. Both genres allow the hero to wipe out. Around 1800: textual citations by philosophical and literary greats like johann gottfried. Herder and johann wolfgang von goethe, who notes that the vampire can even vamparize others from his own grave. Vampire hunts essentially replaced witch hunts of earlier centuries.
