Term Paper in Horror Film
Dec. 19th, 2007 08:33 pmThe most awesome thing ever?
I asked the professor in 'Between Fear and Fascination - something or other gender related in the Horror Film Genre' today if it would be okay to write my term-paper (~15 pages) on horror film aspects in a 'modern' TV-series, like maybe Supernatural or Buffy (or both, we'll see), and she said yes.
Wheeee!
I can write a term-paper - and get a fucking Literaturwissenschafts-Leistungsschein - on Buffy! OMG!
(I thought of this after we heard an oral report on Interview with the Vampire today, saw the scene in which Lestat wrings out a rat into a goblet for Louis to drink, and mentioned to Nadine how this was rather funny. And the only thing even more funny, vampire-drinking-blood related I could think of right then was Angel and/or Spike drinking microwaved blood from a coffee mug. Idea born. Maybe this is a good starting point. How do these series turn old concept of horror movies on their heads - something like that. We'll see.)
Oooooh, exited!
EDIT: Also, if you want to do a presentation on Interview, better mention all the details, especially the fact that one of the vamps is in love or something with the other and there is or might be or whatever homoeroticism, because whoa, beware of the fangirls!
(There were two of those today. Unnerving! Not nearly as much as the guy who did the presentation on werewolves, though. 'To die' =/= today, srsly. (There was more like that. Was really a pain to listen to.) And also, they did their presentation so much too long! Holy shit. We have 3 1/2 hours every two weeks, and they used those UP, just to tell us that Mystic Horror consisty mainly of vampires and werewolves, what dracula is and where the myth comes from, what the plot of Interview is and ... I'm not really sure if the werewolf-guy had anything important to say. They didn't even get around to the part on 'Cat People'. Ye gods! You had three fucking hours!
Next time, on the 9th of January, it's out turn, giving a presentation on splatter movies and apocalyptic scenarios. We'll detail the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the new version of The Hills Have Eyes, and 28 Days Later (the latter mainly because we were three people, wanted to pick another film and I happe to actually like that one. Also, there was nothing so far on zombies whatsoever.) We plan on geting this done in 60-90 minutes, leaving plenty of time for the group of today to finish their final topic and maybe even talk a little about the films. Need to remember to take my speakers, though. The ones the prof has sound terrible! Today, they had some weird grasshopper-chirping going on. And I mean the boxes, not the presentation. Quite annoying.)
I asked the professor in 'Between Fear and Fascination - something or other gender related in the Horror Film Genre' today if it would be okay to write my term-paper (~15 pages) on horror film aspects in a 'modern' TV-series, like maybe Supernatural or Buffy (or both, we'll see), and she said yes.
Wheeee!
I can write a term-paper - and get a fucking Literaturwissenschafts-Leistungsschein - on Buffy! OMG!
(I thought of this after we heard an oral report on Interview with the Vampire today, saw the scene in which Lestat wrings out a rat into a goblet for Louis to drink, and mentioned to Nadine how this was rather funny. And the only thing even more funny, vampire-drinking-blood related I could think of right then was Angel and/or Spike drinking microwaved blood from a coffee mug. Idea born. Maybe this is a good starting point. How do these series turn old concept of horror movies on their heads - something like that. We'll see.)
Oooooh, exited!
EDIT: Also, if you want to do a presentation on Interview, better mention all the details, especially the fact that one of the vamps is in love or something with the other and there is or might be or whatever homoeroticism, because whoa, beware of the fangirls!
(There were two of those today. Unnerving! Not nearly as much as the guy who did the presentation on werewolves, though. 'To die' =/= today, srsly. (There was more like that. Was really a pain to listen to.) And also, they did their presentation so much too long! Holy shit. We have 3 1/2 hours every two weeks, and they used those UP, just to tell us that Mystic Horror consisty mainly of vampires and werewolves, what dracula is and where the myth comes from, what the plot of Interview is and ... I'm not really sure if the werewolf-guy had anything important to say. They didn't even get around to the part on 'Cat People'. Ye gods! You had three fucking hours!
Next time, on the 9th of January, it's out turn, giving a presentation on splatter movies and apocalyptic scenarios. We'll detail the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the new version of The Hills Have Eyes, and 28 Days Later (the latter mainly because we were three people, wanted to pick another film and I happe to actually like that one. Also, there was nothing so far on zombies whatsoever.) We plan on geting this done in 60-90 minutes, leaving plenty of time for the group of today to finish their final topic and maybe even talk a little about the films. Need to remember to take my speakers, though. The ones the prof has sound terrible! Today, they had some weird grasshopper-chirping going on. And I mean the boxes, not the presentation. Quite annoying.)