Questions After Nosferatu

Here is a link to the entire film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5mMVeFZEQ

Also, I want to send you a schedule of our guests:

October 29 -- SB 205 -- Starting at 7 pm, Mike Maggio will speak to us on fiction and satire.  He may be reading to us from his novel, The Wizard and the White House.  He sent us this note:  "I’m also wondering if maybe your students would like to listen to the Dennis Price Show on Tuesday night at 8 (the Tuesday before I come). Dennis will be interviewing me and we’ll be talking about the book and about publishing with the publisher of Little Feather Books.

It can be streamed on the internet at http://www.fcac.org/radio-fairfax  and click on Stream Radio Fairfax."

November 12 -- Dean Rodney Redmond will be here at 6:30 pm to observe my teaching.

November 19 -- We will be traveling to Science Center 152 to attend a performance by poet Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram.  This performance will begin at 7 pm.

Both Mr. Maggio and Dr. Ingram will be on our final, and you may respond to issues that they raise in your papers on fiction and poetry respectively.

Finally, here are the readings for next week.  Please read Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Alexie's "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona," and Ha Jin's "Saboteur."

Here are a few questions to start off your journal:

-- What was it like for you to watch a nearly one hundred-year-old silent movie like Nosferatu?

-- Have you ever seen a silent movie before?  If so, what was it like?

-- Compare Nosferatu to other vampire movies or TV shows you've seen.

-- Compare Nosferatu to other horror movies or TV shows that you've seen.

-- What is it like to watch Nosferatu in the era of Ebola?

-- How does Nosferatu show what it was like to be German after WWI?

-- What did you make of Ellen's sacrifice at the end?  Why?  (Note, in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake, her sacrifice is for naught as Hutter has become a vampire.)

-- Compare/contrast Hutter and Ellen's response to Count Orlok/Nosferatu.

-- Discuss the visual techniques (lighting, camera angles, iris, shadows, montages) used in Nosferatu.

-- Discuss the special effects used in Nosferatu.  This may include the count's appearance.

-- Is Nosferatu natural or unnatural?  Why?  (Consider the scenes where Prof. Bulwer is showing his students the carnivorous plants that he compares to a vampire.)

-- Discuss the impact of the soundtrack.

-- Discuss the impact of the exposition/text slides.

-- Who is the narrator?

-- What role does Knock play in Nosferatu?

-- Why do we (or why do many people) love horror?

-- Compare and contrast Nosferatu and "The Cask of Amontillado" as horror stories.

-- How do you respond to the narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

-- How do you respond to the professor in "Saboteur"?  Why does he do what he does?

-- What part does humor play in "This is What It Means..."?

-- Discuss Thomas and Victor's relationship in this story.  Why does Thomas accompany Victor?