RSSS 315 Tier 2: Thirteenth Week

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RSSS 315 (Tier 2) Thirteenth Week

• Vampires and Werewolves Slavic Folklore in Our
  Culture

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Armand Chapters 6-8
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Kievan Rus
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Monastery of the Caves
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History

• Height of power 10th-12th
• Invasion, destruction in 13th
• Bare survival next centuries

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Iconography

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

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Icons
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From the 15th Century
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Our Lady of Tenderness
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Werewolf features
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Accounts

• Folklore
• Fairy tales
• Cautionary tales
• More on Little Red Riding Hood
• Films blend different genres

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Ambivalence?
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Werewolf in Europe Series

• American Werewolf in London 1981
• John Landis, Director
• American Werewolf in Paris 1997
• Anthony Waller, Director

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General interpretations of werewolves

• Psychological
• Sociological
• Ideological

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Neil Jordan, 1950-
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Filmography

• Company of Wolves, 1984
• Interview with a Vampire, 1994
• Crying Game, 1992
• Good Thief, 2002

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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

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So far.

• Vacation travel pretty desolate
• Gothic?
• Warnings?
• Attack
• Rescue
• London hospital

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Visions

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

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Relationship

• Alex
• Settling in..

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Other meanings?

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