Seminar paper Cognitive Theories and Human Emotion Cognitive Theories: Cognitivism in Film and the Appeal of Horror Shireen Jamooji Cognitive Theories: Cognitivism in Film and the Appeal of Horror What is Cognition? Throughout every waking hour and often while they are asleep‚ a person is thinking. It is an involuntary practice of mentally processing information. The cognitive rearrangement or manipulation of both information from the environment and symbols stored in long term memory is
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ourselves better people What regretful mistakes and bad intentions are revealed in Dracula? Lucy removes the garland of garlic leading to her doom Jonathan goes to see Dracula despite warning that Dracula is deadly Dracula moves to London and is exposed to his enemies Jonathan‚ Lucy‚ and Mina are all tempted by lust. Vampires as “bad boy/bad girl” appeal to him What literary technique can we focus on for Dracula? Characterization Setting Imagery theme What regretful mistakes and bad intentions
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considered evil and wicked‚ we then have an individual who possesses a strong moral evil and lust for the corruption of humanity. I strongly believe that the most vile‚ wicked‚ and immoral person to ever live throughout history is Vlad Dracula (or) Vlad the Impaler. Vlad Dracula‚ born in 1431 in Sighișoara‚ Transylvania [now in Romania]‚ was one of four sons born into the noble family of Vlad II Dracul (Vlad Dracula’s
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and the way he dresses‚ and by the replicants way of thinking. Dracula has a very old appearance‚ nevertheless‚ he still looks very menacing and treacherous. In an extract of the film by Francis Ford‚ Dracula is wearing a long red cape; abnormally long. It is bright red‚ as the colour of blood‚ which in a way describes the personality of Dracula being as we learn later on that he is a vampire. Later on in that film‚ we see Dracula climbing down a wall on his hands and feet‚ this confirms that he
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Stroker’s Dracula‚ Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ and Eric Greitens’ A Warrior’s Heart‚ I was trying to solve a problem not only for my sake but for the sake of others also. Multiple crimes were committed‚ and Dracula was guilty of them all. Because he was such an aberration‚ he did much more to his victims than just kill them‚ but he also used them as bait to attract others. Jonathan‚ Van Helsing‚ and Dr. Seward were all the victims of Dracula’s plans‚ but also they were attempting to stop Dracula once and
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A Case Analysis of Vampires’ Statuses in Popular Culture: Dracula and Blood of the Vampire By Jillian Broaddus Professor Hassan Spring 2014 Independent Study From containing possible allusions in the bible to serving as the protagonists of a multi-million dollar franchise in the twenty-first century‚ one character has transcended time and space across literature‚ media‚ and popular culture: that of the vampire. The notion of vampirism truly took ground during the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian
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talking about Vlad the Impaler. (Also referred to as Vlad III.) His father Vlad II was the elder in Wallachia. The king gave a nickname to Vlad II‚ he was given the nickname Dracul. Vlad III however got a new nickname too. His was Son of Dracul or Dracula. When Vlad II died in battle‚ his son (Vlad III rushed to take his throne. He got back in his father’s place‚ but it was short-lived. The other ruler that took the throne before him took it back. He switched sides of the war he was fighting for.
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Foreman 0 DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham‚ North Carolina From Status to Contract: Domesticating Modernity in Wuthering Heights‚ The Mill on the Floss and Dracula Violeta Solonova Foreman March‚ 2011 Undergraduate Critical Honors Thesis Trinity College of Arts and Sciences English Department Foreman 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to my thesis advisor‚ Professor Psomiades for her dedication‚ insight‚ positivity‚ encouragement‚ and inspiration. Also‚ thank you to loved ones for
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that I can be identified in the literature of that time. Written in the late 19th century‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” both explore the controversy of the times by juxtaposing ideal narrow gender roles that were accepted during the Victorian Age. Also‚ through
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Kevin Pearson 3-28-12 I. Attention Getter Have you never felt a sudden rush of panic when you saw something scary pop out of nowhere in a Horror movie? Have you never squirmed in you seat at the theatre or even in your living room chair because you saw something that was unsettling on the screen? II. Need Step Of course you have. All of us have. Every one of us has been afraid or startled by something or someone in the Horror movie medium. But‚ why? What make us so afraid of the
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