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Dracula Part 12: The Phonograph 408 Views


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If phonographs could stump Dracula, one can only wonder what an iPhone would do to him. Or one could watch this video. It’s a lot faster than all that wondering.


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00:00

Thank you We sneak in Dracula photograph Alas shmoop Many

00:14

modernised technology symbols you know populate the work But perhaps

00:19

the most centralia least interesting to me Thing is the

00:22

photograph How does dracula used the photograph as a literary

00:29

device The photograph that you picked up on that the

00:32

photograph is so is such an interesting device So the

00:35

photograph in one sense represents technology because i think it's

00:38

a relatively new technology of the age that you can

00:42

record your voice it comes up I think in the

00:46

first context in the insane asylum that john john seward

00:49

uses the photograph to record his sessions with his band

00:53

of lunatics Then meena picks up the technology and transcribes

00:59

what they recorded on the photograph into shorthand which i

01:03

don't think people use anymore But i think it's a

01:06

technique from the nineteenth and twentieth century to sort of

01:09

direct things in an abbreviated fashion I think the main

01:14

purpose is that it's something that stumps dracula so it

01:16

like more than anything it sort of represents the chasm

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or gap between the new when the old that dracula

01:22

is able to amass a lot of new information but

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he's not able to amass everything So he doesn't really

01:28

understand what's going on with the photograph his understand what's

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going on with shorthand it's also sort of from a

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like a narrative theory perspective It's Also a different sort

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of spin on how to how you narrate a story

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you have You have like this kind of body less

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voice that's it that's echoing back to you that's a

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great body his voice i love Out is dracula used 00:01:57.099 --> [endTime] the photograph as a literary device Oh no

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