Quiz Three for Zombie Class

Quiz Three over Weeks Five and Six is available.

In addition to viewing the video, look over the assignments for Week Five and and Week Six and read the notes provided, for they will help you digest the material from our four texts.

The video as always, covers all the questions on this week's quiz. A good review:

Quiz Two Video Review

This week's quiz--thirty questions, multiple choice and true/false--covers the material read and viewed, but not the films shown at 5:00, over the past two weeks.
 

The video review, as always, addresses all the questions raised in the test of thirty questions over the two films, short stories, and other assigned readings.
 






Before you take Quiz Two, watch this video--take notes; read the class notes and the assigned readings:

Video Review for Quiz One

Before taking Quiz One, watch the video at the conclusion of this quick post.  

The quiz contains thirty questions, Multiple Choice and True/False.  The quiz covers the two films we watched, The White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie, the critical readings, and four short stories--all the considerable work you have done over the past two weeks.

This quiz will be available until Monday at midnight, Feb 6.

If you have problems or questions, just contact me. 

Before you take the quiz, make sure to watch the video:

W. B. Seabrook's Zombies in Magic Island

As your three critical texts for the class indicate, W. B. Seabrook's book  The Magic Island (1929) brought the word zombie in the American lexicon and finds expression in The White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie.

In the chapter "Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields," Seabrook relates a story about zombies told to him by his friend Polynice, who eventually takes Seabrook to see zombies.

The chapter likewise relates the reading to the author by Dr. Antoine Villiers of Article 249 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Haiti, words often repeated--the Christian priest read the description in The White Zombie,

Anyway, I thought that you might like to hear these well-known pages repeated, for they add to your appreciation of the laborers at Murder's sugar factory in The White Zombie;  in many ways, Val Lewton's less sensational I Walked with a Zombie offers a more sympathetic depiction of Voodoo in Haiti, one more in line with The Magic Island. 

In the following video (15 minutes), I read a few pages from The Magic Island: 

Timor mortis conturbat me

The fear of death disturbs me

William Dunbar, "Lament of the Makers" (1508) 

Welcome to Film Studies, a class which this term focuses on Zombie Literature, Criticism, and Cinema; we will watch as many zombie films as possible.

  As my blog page about my adventures in Toronto for the Tenth Annual Zombie Walk, A Decade of Decay, underscores, Zombies have pretty much captivated popular culture on an international scale.

You will find important material on the class web page, which will duplicate pretty much everything you will find on Blackboard--though not the quizzes and the exams, all of which you will take on Blackboard, where you will also turn in your two essays.

The web page also includes a course outline for the entire semester, with the caveat that things might well change; and I will give you plenty of warning.

You will find a more comprehensive assignment description for Week One in the Assignments Folder on Blackboard and on the class web page. 

I will also create spaces for each week and provide further information when needed--which includes videos you will find on this blog.

The first one will appear at the conclusion of this entry.

So give the syllabus your attention and enjoy the reading, watching, and the discussions. 


Welcome to the Class:






Week One:  Discussion of Reading Assignments: