If anyone has seen this film, the assignment is questions on it Clover, “Her Body Himself” (Mod) Opera (1987; dir. Argento)

4/14: Clover, Argento, and Horror Film

1) Using Opera and Eisenstein’s Film Form as your primary texts, analyze the rhetoric of horror film. Discuss at least three other horror films to supplement your argument: what are their shared features? What is different? Why?

2) Using Clover’s argument in “Her Body Himself,” provide an analysis of Argento’s Opera.