1What did Werner Herzog do?
Directed the 1979 Nosferatu: The Vampyre
2What was Herzog's approach to film making?
Image focused, which he considers more important than dialogue
3How does Herzog's Nosferatu character differ from Murnau's?
Herzog's Nosferatu was a 'suffering vampire'
4What was the first instance of a 'suffering vampire'?
Fred Saberhagen's 'The Dracula Tape'
5Common elements found in Herzog's Films?
fear, melancholia, dream visions, and astounding images and haunting music.
6Who did Herzog often use in his films? What type of main character does he use?
He employed non-professional actors and used radical male protagonists
7“film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” is a quote of who?
Herzog
8What was Herzog's main goal in making 'Nosferatu: The Vampyre'?
To create an atmosphere of anonymous fear and nightmare
9What is the opening scene of 'Nosferatu: The Vampyre'?
Mummies from the mexican cholera outbreak of 1833
10How are the mummies often interpreted?
Introducing the genre of the movie (horror)
11How does the first shot of Lucy in Herzog's rendition relate to Murnau's?
Lucy is in bed, just as lucy was at the end of Murnau's Nosferatu
12What change occurs in the kittens from the Two versions of Nosferatu
Instead of lucy playing with the kittens as in Murnau's, the kittens play with a picture of Lucy in Herzog's, suggesting a change in dynamic of humans and animal-kind
13What is the change in outcome from Herzog's Nosferatu and Dracula?
In Dracula, reason triumphs over superstition but the opposite is true for Herzog's version
14Difference in how Nosferatu is portrayed in the two versions?
Insect like in Murnau's and more human-like in Herzog's
15How do the two versions of Nosferatu handle the story arc? (efficiency, closure, etc...)
Murnau: efficiency/closure/enlightenment
Herzog: non-efficiency/non-closure/superstition
16“The signifier in film must always reproduce the phantom of its referent.” what are signifier, signified, and referent?
Signifier: image/sound/word
Signified: (culturally determined) meaning
Referent: who was in front of the camera
17when and where was bram stoker born?
November 8, 1847 Clontarf (Dublin).
18What was Stoker involved in during university?
HE WAS A STUDENT ATHLETE (SOCCER AND MARATHON)
19What did Bram Stoker do before his time as a writer?
Initially worked as a civil servant at Dublin Castle.
In his free time, he was an editor and unpaid theatre critic. This is how he first met Sir Henry Iriving after a performance of Hamlet.
20Who was Florence Balcombe?
Bram Stoker's Wife
21When was work on the novel Dracula started?
1890
22What phrase did Bram Stoker have in mind during his writing of Dracula?
'He belongs to me'
23What characters of Henry Irving's inspired dracula?
Hamlet and Mephisto
24where was “Bram Stoker’s Foundation Papers and Notes for Dracula” auctioned?
Sotheby’s in London
25who "Bram Stoker’s Foundation Papers and Notes for Dracula” aquired?
Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia
26when and where was stokers typescript of dracula found? how much was it sold for and when?
found in 1997 in pensylvania (sound a lot like TRANSLYVANIA)
sold in 2002 for $940,000
27What did stoker do shortly after publication of dracula
4 hour long reading of his book
28The Icelandic re-write, 'Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula' focuses on what?
Jonathans trip to the castle and time at the castle