Modern Horror Film UMT Study Guide Questions And Actual Answers.
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Modern Horror Film
Which one of these films is from the "silent era" of Horror? - Answer The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary
From the following list, select which of the following is not one of the Universal Horror icons from the 1930's and 1940's? - Answer Michael Myers
Match the following movies to the year the...
Modern Horror Film UMT Study Guide
Questions And Actual Answers.
Which one of these films is from the "silent era" of Horror? - Answer The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary
From the following list, select which of the following is not one of the Universal Horror icons from the
1930's and 1940's? - Answer Michael Myers
Match the following movies to the year they were released. - Answer Cat People 1942, The Mummy
1932, The Golem 1915, The Beginning of the End 1957.
What is Cat People's arguably most famous contribution to Horror Cinema? - Answer The idea that the
'scare' can be psychological within the audience; believing is seeing.
What does Zeitgeist have to do with the films of the 1940's and 1950's? Please select the three correct
responses from the five options below. - Answer b. This was the time when "Creature Features" really
took off. Films like Them!, The Deadly Mantis, and Thing From Another World where all reactions to the
Zeitgeist.
c. The atomic bomb was the cataclysmic event which changed the Zeitgeist; the bomb and radiation
were largely misunderstood by the general populous, and led to a lot of fear of their unknown effects.
d. Roughly translated, Zeitgeist means "the spirit of the time," and is the reflection of what's going on in
the society where and when the piece is made.
e. The visualization of 1950's Zeitgeist only appears in its cinema.
What is a "contradiction" in relation to monsters? - Answer 1)The Horror Monster is a type of
"pollutant" that crosses borders. That is, it is a dangerous and impure being that disrupts order and
"simply should not be." 2) Monsters are physically and cognitively threatening, and can be seen as
challenges to a culture's way of thinking. 3) Some examples of monsters crossing categories are the
human/animal (the werewolf) and the living/dead (the zombie)
, Which of the following best describes the "contradiction" of these monsters: Dracula, The Mummy, and
Frankenstein's Monster. - Answer Living/Dead
What is "abjection" in relation to monsters? Please select the three correct responses from the five
options below. - Answer 1) Cronenberg's The Fly is a excellent film example of abjection, where the
mutating scientist must vomit digestive fluid over his food before eating it - a process required of fly
species, but not humans. 2) The human corpse is the ultimate abjected object: identity itself has been
expelled, and we are faced with our own biological processes. What separates the self from the world
around it is destroyed, and identity is lost. 3)The concept of Abjection requires three components: The
self, the exclusion of the "disgusting" elements that threaten the formation of the self's identity, and the
identity thereby created by forming these distinctions. This process creates borders and rules, which are
disturbed when faced with "the abject," where the self is forced to face the elements which undermine
him- or herself as a distinct entity.
Please select the example of how monsters can exist in films as "metaphors." - Answer All of the above
are examples of the Monster as "metaphor."
The scene from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula involving the Count cutting his chest and forcing Mina to
drink his blood probably wasn't included in the first few decades of Dracula movies because it too closely
resembled... - Answer Rape
Hutchings describes Dracula as a monster appropriated by the people, and suggests "...that any
interpretation of Dracula that views him independently of the history of his various manifestations in
culture...fails to engage with the creative energies that have helped keep Dracula alive over the
decades." - Answer In this version, a woman finally gets to drink Dracula's blood. The Count still claims
he will "master this woman," however the feasting proceeds with a different tone from Stoker's original
violent act to an ambiguously consensual one. → "Dracula" (1979), Here, the assertiveness of Mina is
taken even further... After opening his chest, the Count decides it best that Mina does not drink of him,
but Mina pushes him down and partakes solely of her own free will. → "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992),
Released on Valentine's Day as a love story, this film featured the slogan "the story of the strangest
passion the world has ever known." → "Dracula" (1931), This film was horror cinema's first (very
tentative) attempt at a 'drinking blood' scene; although the film cuts the moment Dracula slices his chest
open. → "Dracula - Prince of Darkness" (1965)
Why could it be argued that the "serial killer" is not a proper horror monster? Please select the three
correct responses from the five options below. - Answer Serial killers exist in real life as well as fiction.,
Real serial killers are dysfunctional individuals who murder in an attempt to find significance in their
meaningless lives, whereas the serial killers in films are depicted as charming, powerful, and are virtually
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