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Title: RSSS 315 Tier 2: Thirteenth Week


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RSSS 315 (Tier 2) Thirteenth Week
  • Vampires and Werewolves Slavic Folklore in Our
    Culture

2
Armand Chapters 6-8
3
Kievan Rus
4
Monastery of the Caves
5
History
  • Height of power 10th-12th
  • Invasion, destruction in 13th
  • Bare survival next centuries

6
Iconography
  • Holy activity purity
  • Iconographers role
  • Holy image follow the model
  • Not made by human hands
  • Two-dimensions, unusual perspective
  • Prominent in Orthodoxy

7
Icons
8
From the 15th Century
9
Our Lady of Tenderness
10
Werewolf features
11
Accounts
  • Folklore
  • Fairy tales
  • Cautionary tales
  • More on Little Red Riding Hood
  • Films blend different genres

12
Ambivalence?
13
Werewolf in Europe Series
  • American Werewolf in London 1981
  • John Landis, Director
  • American Werewolf in Paris 1997
  • Anthony Waller, Director

14
General interpretations of werewolves
  • Psychological
  • Sociological
  • Ideological

15
Neil Jordan, 1950-
16
Filmography
  • Company of Wolves, 1984
  • Interview with a Vampire, 1994
  • Crying Game, 1992
  • Good Thief, 2002

17
An American Werewolf in London 1981
  • John Landis, dir. (Animal House, Blues Brothers)
  • Comic and creepy
  • Key element the transformation
  • Scare it could happen to anyone

18
So far.
  • Vacation travel pretty desolate
  • Gothic?
  • Warnings?
  • Attack
  • Rescue
  • London hospital

19
Visions
  • Nightmares
  • Jack returns
  • Jack tells him whats happening, what he has to do

20
Relationship
  • Alex
  • Settling in..

21
Other meanings?
  • Maturity quest
  • True love by a special kind of woman will change
    you from a beast
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