You will have a timed essay in Friday's lesson.
You will have 50 minutes to answer the following question.
"Discuss how you feel a specific body of films exerts an emotional impact on its audience"
Your specific body of films is, of course, the Horror genre, with reference to Nosferatu, Psycho and The Exorcist.
You would do well to revise the following
Use of Music, Mise-en-Scene, Shadow, Costume, The role of the Monster, Phallic Imagery, German Expressionism, Deluding/Directing the audience, Macguffins, Voyeurism/Transgression, Eroticism/Abjection/Body Horror, Taboo, Fear of Insanity, Fear of Children/Youth Revolt, Use of Conventional Narrative Structures, False Shock, Shock Cuts, Historical Context of the films (plague, venereal disease, Vietnam)
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