Noel Carroll Pro Test Questions With All Correct Answers.
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Modern Horror Film
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Modern Horror Film
Carroll's definition of horror (ontology - essential nature of horror) horror v scary - why we emotionally respond to things we know are not true. - Answer -why should we rely on psych theories to explain films?
*model-Aristotle on tragedy (tragedy evokes specifically pity and fear)
*Horror fi...
Noel Carroll Pro Test Questions With All
Correct Answers.
Carroll's definition of horror (ontology - essential nature of horror) horror v scary - why we emotionally
respond to things we know are not true. - Answer -why should we rely on psych theories to explain
films?
*model-Aristotle on tragedy (tragedy evokes specifically pity and fear)
*Horror films are intended to arouse the emotion of art-horror in the audience - where the object of art-
horror is the monster, and where art-horror is produced by fear and disgust caused by threat and
impurity.
-intended: it can be horror without actually scaring you, like Cat People, but its INTENDED to be scary.
Very broad, communicative acts (very little interpretation, use conventions of that genre, people in films
reactions/emotions).
Art horror - Answer reaction to horror films is different from reactions from real-life horror, usually
much more subdued than a real-life reaction.
Also is distinct from other genres.
-the object of art horror is the monster
Emotion - Answer -emotion (dispositional v transitory) - general everyday emotional state v flashes of
anger. For art-horror, this involved a transition from dispositional to physical agitation. Triggered by
belief-state (evaluative thoughts - does the object of our belief-state actually exist?) Horrified at the
thoughts that something is real, not actually believing their real. (NEED physical agitation + belief-state
for EMOTION!!)
-emotion centers on an object/monster, the thought of them.
Properties of the monster - Answer 1- Does not exist according to contemporary science (within film
world, a cognitive threat)
2- Is threatening (provokes fear)
3- Is impure (provokes disgust) - can be subjective so might be too vague to be useful - Mary Douglas:
abhorrence of beings that cross cultural categories (ex. lobsters live in both land and sea). An
object/being is impure if it is categorically contradictory, incomplete, formless, interstitial (in more than
one category)
, Fastastic biologies: types of monsters - Answer -fusion - contradictory elements melded together
-fission -
Spatial fission - contradictory elements are spread out (in the Thing, the monster and split into different
components so it is fusion AND spatial fission.
Temporal fission - ex. Werewolf transformation, both fusion and temporal fission monster
-magnification: Them! (Douglas, 1954) about giant ants. Giant real life species that is already
threatening/impure otherwise its like a comedy.
-massification: a mass of birds v one bird out for blood (The Birds, Hitchcock)
-horrific metonymy: Monster doesnt look disgusting but is associated with creatures that are, like
Dracula and rats and skeletons.
Paradox of fiction (in or out of horror) - Answer 1-we can have emotional responses to something we
believe exists
2-we have emotional responses to characters in fiction
3 - We know that fictional characters don't exist
1- We can only rationally be scared by something we believe exists
2- we are scared by monsters in horror films
3- we know that monsters don't exist
Illusion theory for the paradox of horror - Answer -gets rid of assumption 3: We DON'T know that
monsters don't exist (suspended belief)
Problem: if we really believed if we were in the presence of a monster, we would flee the theater, not sit
there and watch. Also another paradox, we only know that we must suspend our belief if we first know
that something isn't real.
Pretend theory for the paradox of fiction - Answer -gets rid of assumption 2: We AREN'T scared by the
monster in the horror film. We are just "game-playing" because its a fiction and maybe at all we are
feeling quasi-fear.
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