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Starting us off with some Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari (1920).
Starting us off with some Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari (1920).
It's almost that special time...
Nov. 19th, 2011 09:58 pmVis-à-vis my BA dissertation, an end is in finally in sight! I was at the printers today which must always be a terrifying experience, but it went ok and now most of my worries are over.
I have decided to take the evening off in celebration. I've accumulated quite a few film still illustrations that I'll be posting by and by.
I'm sort of devastated that this will be the first year in my life that I'm gonna be missing thanksgiving with my family (due to work). I will be having a mini celebration with my lovely flatmates though and I feel that I need to be the best ambassador to my country that I can be and cook up a storm! ;D
(The inversion of the holy mountain to God, the labyrinth in malo, the descending spiral into the unconsciousness and the idea of a demonic parody of the world.)
I have decided to take the evening off in celebration. I've accumulated quite a few film still illustrations that I'll be posting by and by.
I'm sort of devastated that this will be the first year in my life that I'm gonna be missing thanksgiving with my family (due to work). I will be having a mini celebration with my lovely flatmates though and I feel that I need to be the best ambassador to my country that I can be and cook up a storm! ;D
(The inversion of the holy mountain to God, the labyrinth in malo, the descending spiral into the unconsciousness and the idea of a demonic parody of the world.)
Monster Movies
Jun. 5th, 2011 01:19 pm
For my degree I need to write a "dissertation" (or rather a glorified term paper with a visual element) on, well, basically the subject of my choosing. Naturally, the subject of my choosing is supernatural horror movies from the teens to the thirties! I am filled with geeky glee. I've always found this kind of writing extremely satisfying in a way and it's something that's hardly ever required on my course. Were I studying in America... but let's not open that can of worms.
I'm still kind of in the research phase, but I stumbled across a really marvelous essay by Marie-Helene Huet called "Monstrous Imagination" that talks about the origin or birth of the monster. Apparently, for a long time the female imagination was seen as the cause: instead of producing offspring in the image of the father, the children would reflect the secret desires and thoughts of the mother during her pregnancy. The physical form of the child could also be influenced by works of art that the mother looked at or desired during pregnancy. During the Romantic period the view kind of switched around to the male artist being the sole parent of the monster (i.e. Frankenstein).
