Nosferatu

Introduction (Given) The immense popularity of the vampire in pop culture (Given) Nosferatu was one of the first horror movies to utilize fear to generate interest (Given) Nosferatu is one of the earliest attempts at adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula into a film (Given) Nosferatu contains features which connect it to several different cinematic styles present in Weimar cinema (Given) The audience is familiar with the plot of Nosferatu and how it builds to a terrifying climax instead of following Freytag’s pyramid

unescapable tyranny; it was a fear of the people. Germany was out of balance and they needed to choose their establishment, they feared that tyranny would be bad, but enjoyed watching the horrors of tyranny in film (Kracauer, p. 76). Vampire films like Nosferatu and Dracula star a tyrannical, unstoppable man and the citizens are powerless to fight back against his reign and his lust. Kracauer questions the German peoples’ love for movies like these, “did they call upon frightened visions to exorcise lusts

When I was young, and knew little about how the world worked, I was frightened by the ideas of monsters in my closet or dolls that come to life while you are asleep. Now that I am older, I have more experience living on Earth, and I know what to expect from it. Likewise, horror genre has grown to create an alternate reality in which one can not assume that what we come to expect of the real world applies in a fictional one: “[The horror genre] must posit an unnatural threat that is outside the realm

resurgence of Dracula in the mid 1900’s. All of these credits however mean nothing in the world of film without the movies that kicked everything off, Nosferatu, the 1922 film keeps true to the book Dracula. This allowed a new archetype to come to the world of film. This archetype however, has undergone dramatic changes over the decades. From Nosferatu to the new release of Dark Shadows, change has clearly

early 1920’s- F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” and Robert Wiene’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. “Nosferatu” was shot in 1921 and released in 1922. It was an unwarranted reworking of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. The name, among other details pertaining to the film were altered since the studio was not able to retrieve any rights to the novel. Instead of “vampire”, “Nosferatu” was the substitute name, and “Count Orlok” was substituted for “Count Dracula”. Only a single print of “Nosferatu” managed to endure, and

obvious symbolism Merhige uses to portray vampires other than Dracula is the camera and its lenses. The first scene the viewers see is of Murnau’s eye looking into the dark lens of camera which is recording Greta (playing Ellen) and the cat for Nosferatu. From that scene on the viewers can figure out that the camera and its lens will be very important for the entirety of the film although they may not fully know why. The first comparison of the camera

Jan Perkowski is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. Aside from teaching courses on vampire mythology and folklore, he also researches Slavic mythology and Russian language. Perkowski has contributed many works towards vampire mythology and folklore, and “in studying the Slavic Vampire” he “devised an outline of analysis to be applied to individual accounts of Slavic vampires” (Stern). This allows for students to deconstruct the Slavic vampire to see how

Sexual Transgression in Monster and Vampire Movies Vampires, not only lurking in far away lands such as the renowned Transylvania, but also have been said to lie in the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Its home, not a fortified castle guarded by the children of the night, but the realm of the sub-text, guarded by endless narratives. Each, a new bread in themselves, having represented different arenas in the human social order one thing remains true in all the Vampire

Stoker’s novel: Dracula. Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who goes to Transylvania to meet with his new client, Count Dracula, to discuss the topic of purchasing a property in England. Over the course of his stay, he discovers that the host is actually a nosferatu (vampire in Latin). Jonathan nearly escapes and finds himself in Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary where he suffers from brain fever. Halfway through the novel, Count Dracula’s plan is exposed: living in different properties of London (which has

Sexuality in Dracula and Blacula The story of Nosferatu has its origins in the novel, Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897. The historic story of Johnathan Harker, an innocent lawyer from England, who was lured to Dracula’s Castle to help the Count purchase land in London. Johnathan is nearly infected by three women vampires but escapes with his life. This scene reveals the Victorian Society’s ideas about Sexuality, which is a prevalent theme in Dracula. Count Dracula has been adapted numerous