Above is a picture of F.W. Murnau, the director of Nosferatu. I hope that the image below stays!
Good morning :)
I'm glad that you enjoyed the snacks last night, and I hope that your work is coming along well.
Since we are coming through a particularly busy stretch, I am not assigning any reading for Monday although we will be discussing poetry as well as Nosferatu.
Tuesday's reading will be chapters 11 and 12 (including poems) (541-569).
Here is a link to Nosferatu:
For more information about the film, see this entry:
http://worldlit2.multiply.com/journal/item/154/Nosferatu-1922
http://worldlit2.multiply.com/
You may enjoy seeing a little bit about silent comedy:
I am also sending you a PowerPoint on vampires, done by students in a section of EN 202.
I will try to keep the questions to a (relative) minimum:
-- If English is *not* your first language, what was it like to watch Nosferatu?
-- How may Nosferatu have influenced today's horror movies and/or vampire movies & TV shows?
-- How is Nosferatu different from today's vampire?
-- What is film like without a soundtrack? Is it literature? Or is it art?
-- Discuss the characters in the film. Are they round? flat? Are they archetypes? Why? Why not?
-- Discuss the setting in the film.
-- What would seem to be the theme of the film?
-- What are some symbols in the film? How do they make the film more interesting?
-- How may folktales such as "Godfather Death" have influenced Nosferatu?
Here are some questions about the play for those of you who will attend Saturday's performance:
-- What was it like for you to watch a live performance?
-- Compare the act of watching a live performance to the act of watching a film of a performance.
-- What did the performance add to your understanding of Trifles?
-- Should we continue to perform and/or read Glaspell's play?
Keep up the good work, everyone!
Dr. Szlyk
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