Monsters, Discourse, and Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Blog Prompt: "What were your initial reactions to the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer? What did it add to your current understanding of..."
Having never seen this show, my initial reaction to this episode brought different views upon vampires that I had never previously experienced. Overall, it was much better and easier to view than Nosferatu. My understanding of the vampire lore did not change by watching this episode, however it was interesting to see the initial entrance of the vampire coming up from the ground. I did not expect the creature that appeared, it was more fearful and ugly than anything I have seen in any film. Some rhetorical elements that I came across was the power of women in the time period, and the theme of good and evil. This show was much more appealing to my own senses and to the viewers of the time. With the use of more popular actors and strong humor, themes involved with monsters are alot easier to see. Like twilight, this show appeals to a different audience to show the rhetorical strategies and themes of vampires and monsters.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Blog Prompt
What were your initial reactions to the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer? What did it add to your current understanding of vampire lore? What explicit rhetorical elements could you discern? Think about the ways in which the show attempted to appeal to you through reason, credibility, and emotions. In addition, consider the ways various rhetorical strategies were used.
What elements of culture were being critiqued in the episodes? How does this change your understanding of how monsters function in terms of social problems?
What elements of the show were confusing? How so?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Prompt for Blog Post #1
What were your initial reactions to the film Nosferatu? What did it add to your current understanding of vampire lore? What might the sexual ambiguity of Count Orlock have meant in the context of 1920s Germany? How might anti-Semitism have figured in? What elements of Count Orlock seem to be making a critique of the social conditions at the time? How does this change your understanding of how American vampires are depicted in modern movies? How are they similar and how are they different?
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