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RSSS 315 (Seventh Week)

RSSS 315 (Seventh Week). Slavic Folklore: Vampires and Werewolves. Basic information. Instructor: George Gutsche Teaching assistants: Kenny Cargill, Paula McCambridge gutscheg@u.arizona.edu D2L; http://russian.arizona.edu/courses/vampires Office hours: T 11-12:30 or by appointment.

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RSSS 315 (Seventh Week)

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  1. RSSS 315 (Seventh Week) Slavic Folklore: Vampires and Werewolves

  2. Basic information • Instructor: George Gutsche • Teaching assistants: Kenny Cargill, Paula McCambridge • gutscheg@u.arizona.edu • D2L; http://russian.arizona.edu/courses/vampires • Office hours: T 11-12:30 or by appointment

  3. Exam Issues

  4. Dracula: Chapters 14-19

  5. Dracula continued

  6. Whitby and London

  7. Nosferatu films (German) • Murnau’s Symphony of Horror 1922 • Herzog’s Nosferatu 1979

  8. Klaus Kinski 1926-1991 • German-Polish heritage • Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night 1979

  9. Literature into Film: Challenges • Background information • Imagery • Suggestiveness • Inner dialogue, monologue

  10. Coppola film Contamination? Quick Review • Nobility vampires

  11. Note on Tolstoi’s “Family”

  12. Varney the Vampire • 1845-47 • 1000 pages • Each issue (200+ chapters) sold for a penny

  13. 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 Lesbian theme would be productive in later fiction and film Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1814-73

  14. Observations • Negatives • Clumsy transitions • Forced, post-hoc explanations • Positives • Novel use of folklore • Dream descriptions • Laura-Carmilla relationship

  15. 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

  16. Carmilla • Lesbianism • Setting on edge of Eastern Europe (part of Styria is in Slovenia today) • Influenced literature and films • Hammer's The Vampire Lovers (1970) • Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932) • Numerous others

  17. Austro-Hungarian Empire (Styria=12)

  18. Film Versions of Carmilla/Bathory: The Hunger (1983)

  19. Daughters of Darkness (1971) • Another cult “classic” • Harry Kumel • Combines Carmilla and Bathory

  20. Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) • Famous expressionist film director (Danish; 1889-1968) • Evil presence, atmosphere • Two daughters, one “infected” • Reassuring male presence

  21. Really E European (Hungarian) Theater background 1931 “hit” Dracula Career swings Sad ending Bela Lugosi 1882-1956

  22. General interpretations of werewolves • Psychological • Sociological • Ideological

  23. Etymology and Terminology • Man-wolf, Old English reasonable • Lycanthropy, Therienthropy

  24. Werewolf Epidemics • Peter Stubbe example • Le Gevaudan (France) • Loup-garou stories

  25. Folklore • Variety of features • Variety of cultures

  26. Metaphors • The “beast” within • Man as animal

  27. German (very rich) • Kleinkrams werewolf • Greifswald werewolves • Kornwolf • Wolf wives • Brothers Grimm collection

  28. East European • Rusalki and samovily • Shapeshifters who lure men to their death • Croatian folk tale

  29. Poisonous Buttercup family Source of aconite Also pain reliever (in proper dose) Hallucinogenic effects Wolfsbane

  30. Pentagram • Five pointed star • Witchcraft and werewolves

  31. Key facts • Shallow or no graves • Bloating during decomposition • Fluids expelled during decay • Dead bodies make noises • Decomposition generates heat • Skin shrinks back • Corpses attract wolves • Puncturing is the best treatment for bloat

  32. More on Reality-Based Vampires • Perkowski’s Psychic vampires • Psychology of sucking, biting, thirsting, death and rebirth • Links with milk and blood • Oral sadism • Attraction, repulsion ambivalence • Projection: revenge of the dead

  33. Blood and Roses (1960)

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