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2025-06-03
- Horror movies
- Conservatism:
- Establish sense of normalcy
- Establish the boundary between pure good and pure evil
- Liberalism:
- Provide the opportunity to exercise anti-civilisation emotions in fiction
- Conservatism:
- Criteria:
- Characteristics of a literary genre
- Explanation of the effects of literary devices
- Recognition of the relationship of a text to its period
- 1000 in class essay (2 periods)
2025-06-04
- A Week of Kindness
- 7 collage each associated with a day of the week and a "deadly element"
- From Sunday to Saturday: mud, water, fire, blood, blackness, sight, unknown
2025-06-10
- Mark of the Beast
- Allusion to the Book of Revelation
- Prediction of the apocalypse by apostle John
- First beast = Roman Empire
- Second beast representing Caesar
- Places a mark on ownership on people
- Fleete placing the mark on Hanuman = owning the colonies
- Allusion to the Book of Revelation
- Through the Dragon Glass
- Rak = demi-God, son of the Greatest Wonder-Worker
- Boxers = anti-Christian anti-colonialist Chinese movement in the 1900s
- Rak believes in aestheticism
- Desire for beauty being punished
- Awe and dread are closely associated
2025-06-19
- The Thing (1982)
- Quasi-sci-fi film
- Science as double-edged sword
- Ignorance is bliss
- Masculinity
- Violence over cooperation => increased distrust
- Problem of other minds
Problem that arises from not being able to know other beings exist - Characters:
- Ready to betray each other
- MacReady:
- Destructive when he loses
- Literary realism
- Greatly plausible yet reaffirming of the belief that good gets rewarded and the bad gets punished
- No violation of natural laws
2025-06-23
- UZUMAKI
- Kurouku-cho = black swirl town
- The Spiral Obsession
- Metaphor of cyclical patterns of behaviour
- Meta-commentary of horror
- Hypnotic nature of horror
- Pleasure of disgust
- Medusa
- Kirie & Sekino = innocent & egotistical versions of Medusa
- Junji Ito: body is manifestation of the mind, so body horror is manifestation of fear
- Carrol: horror offers the pleasure of promised revelation without fulfilling the promise
2025-06-26
- In The Mouth of Madness
- Supernatural horror
- Locations:
- New York
- Hobb's End
- Old city created by Cane in the middle of nowhere
- Inhabitants are wicked creatures
- Characters:
- Sutter Cane
Century's most famous writer- Ability to influence reality
- Trent
Insurance investigator- In the beginning:
- (Relatively) brighter
- At the end:
- In complete darkness
- Tries to escape mechanistic materialism with religion (drawn crosses) and cigarette
- Drawn crosses = fictional nature of Trent
- In the beginning:
- Sutter Cane
- Prophecy
- End of everything: evil takes over Hobb's End, starting with children
- No free will
- Mechanical printing
- Represents of the Old Ones
- Represents mechanistic materialism
- Unstoppable
- Trent staring into the void
- Cosmic horror
- Contrast between the sizes of a human and a cosmic force
- Like "The Music of Erich Zann"
- Styles staying behind
- Like "The Music of Erich Zann"
- Trent watching the film
- Mechanistic materialism
- Free will becomes a mockery
- Complete loss of self identity
- Hyperreality
- Defined by Jean Baudrillard
- Simulation: model of a real without origin or reality; creation of simulacra
- The sign is a reflection of reality
E.g.photograph, gold
- The sign becomes a distortion of reality
E.g.digitally altered photograph, bank note
- The sign becomes
E.g.dollar
- The sign is completely removed from reality
E.g.wojak meme, cryptocurrency
- The sign is a reflection of reality
- Simulacrum: signifier of a nonexistent concept that makes up the simulation
- Signifier symbolizes signified
E.g.lamb signifies Christ
- Baudrillard: we live in a simulation of reality that we believe is real
- Death of the real
- Touch grass
Ajitani Hifumi