Presentation on Vampires in Film

[James M. Skidmore]

Dear Friends in the Faculty of Arts:

I would like to announce a talk, by one of this year's recipients of the
Arts in Academics awards, that might well be of interest to a number of you.
The information is below, and it is also available as a .pdf file at
http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/events/documents/goelzvampirespost
er.pdf that you can print off and display as an overhead, post on your
UW-ACE course sites, or e-mail to your students. I would appreciate it if
you could let as many interested people as possible know about this event.

Thanks,
Skid

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Sucking on Celluloid - Vampires on Film 
Presentation by Prof. Peter Gölz, University of Victoria 
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 6-7pm, ML 349

This presentation will give a historical overview of the cinematic history
of the vampire, from Nosferatu’s special effects of the early black and
white days, to Dracula’s introduction of sound, and finally postmodern
retellings of vampires and slayers. As an apt metaphor for the medium, the
vampire has always been a perfect personification of the cinematic phantom
world.  The continued longevity of the most popular myth of the 20th century
will also be examined in light of the vampire’s undying adaptability to
cultural changes. Always at the pulse of its time, every generation
continues to have its own vampires, dark mirrors of its fears and desires.

Peter Gölz is a 2008 recipient of the “Arts in Academics” awards recognizing
UW Arts grads who go on to successful university teaching careers. An
Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Peter is also chair of
his department and President of the Canadian Association of University
Teachers of German. His current research focuses on literary and cinematic
vampires. He is also the founder and president of HyperEdvantage Language
Services, a spin-off company of the University of Victoria that runs the
popular language learning website germanfortravellers.com.

For more information please visit www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca 
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James M. Skidmore
Chair of the Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies 
Faculty of Arts / University of Waterloo 
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  CANADA

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