NAME AND SURNAME: Ezachia Ngcobo STUDENT NUMBER: 0514961J COURSE NAME: Spectatorship in the cinema-horror COURSE NUMBER: DRAA 342 LECTURER: Catherine Duncan DUE DATE: 31 October 2007 ESSAY TOPIC: Carol Clover argues that‚ in particular the slasher film disturbs the traditional model of spectatorship and identification. "As the character who lives to tell the tale of horror‚ the final girl‚ Clover argues‚ must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason
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Themes Salvation and Damnation As several characters note in the novel‚ a person’s physical life is of secondary importance to the person’s eternal life‚ which can be jeopardized if the person is made evil by a vampire like Dracula. Professor Van Helsing says‚ when he is explaining why they must kill the vampire Lucy‚ "But of the most blessed of all‚ when this now Un-Dead be made to rest as true dead‚ then the soul of the poor lady whom we love shall again be free." Even characters that are of
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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West
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message to be sent through a medium to a large audience. But what does it exactly mean to shape public opinion; does it mean changing people’s opinions on events or just to persuade people about an issue on a matter they know nothing about? Gerry Stoker believes ‘our understanding of the key issues that face our societies are substantially influenced by the concerns‚ focus or even the obsessions of the media’. In this paper‚ I will tackle the question primarily from a Marxist prospective‚ evaluating
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The Pre-Raphaelite movement was originally a brotherhood formed around 1848 by several dissatisfied young artists to combat the teachings of the Royal Academy and that of Joshua Sir Sloshua ’ Reynolds. The ringleaders of this group were William Holman-Hunt‚ Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. Unlike most historic art-movements the Pre-Raphaelites actually christened themselves the term after marking the initials PRB (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) on their early works. This title refers
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Grimm Brothers‚ Prest and Stoker are the authors of these three stories rich in literary devices such as allegory and archetypes‚ belonging to two different kind of narrative. In the case of Little Red Cap which is a fairy tale‚ the literary devices are used to describe a history to teach people‚ especially children‚ about social rules and values. In the other hand‚ we have Varney the Vampire and Dracula‚ those are gothic stories in which allegory and archetypes are used to create the atmosphere
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present-day narrative‚ 90-year-old Hagar is struggling against being put in a nursing home‚ which she sees as a symbol of death. The present-day narrative alternates with Hagar’s looking back at her life. Characters: Jason Currie‚ Hagar‚ Reverend Troy‚ Bram‚ Doris‚ John‚Lottie‚ Marvin Summary | Ninety year old Hagar Shipley is as proud‚ independent‚ and clever as when she was a young girl growing up through the Depression and afterwards in a prairie town in Manitoba. Now in Vancouver‚ she suffers
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In her novel The Stone Angel‚ Margaret Laurence uses the stone angel monument to embody the qualities of Hagar . Over the course of the novel‚ Hagar reflects back on the memories that have made up her life. Hagar’s loneliness and depression are self induced and brought on by her pride‚ lack of emotion‚ stubbornness and the ignorance which she has towards anyone’s opinion but her own. The qualities of Hagar are identical with those possessed by the stone angel monument and paralleled by Laurence many
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with accordance of Special Field Order 15 land but were denied of the land and the land was given back to its former owners. (Bram) In the book‚ “Voices of Freedom”‚ a letter that was sent to President Johnson from a freed African-American goes as follows‚ “Shall not we who are freedman and have been always true to this Union have the same rights as are enjoyed by others?” (Bram) Few former slaves acquired farms for themselves and most ended up working on white-owned land for a share of the crop. The
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Approval Voting‚ Steven J. Brams & Peter C. Fishburn‚ Page 4 [ 8 ]. This benefit is a distillation of a few different benefits taken from the sources of the other benefits. [ 9 ]. Approval Voting‚ Steven J. Brams & Peter C. Fishburn‚ Page 3 [ 10 ]. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12455.html‚ Mark Penn [ 11 ]. Choosing Our Choices: Debating the Presidential
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