This project is about Dracula, you can create a Newspaper or something else as your project style, the topic and the project style can be chosen as the details described, and there is only one topic o

Overview

For this assignment, you will create a multimodal or creative project that analyzes some aspect of Dracula interesting to you. This creative or multimodal project should maintain a fundamental engagement with the text itself, building an interpretation, analysis, and/or argument about the text and its relevant contexts.

While secondary sources are not required, they may be useful to you in developing your project and engaging with various historical, textual, and cultural contexts. The Appendices in the Broadview edition of the text may be particularly helpful,

The Task:

For this project, your task will be two-fold.

Topic Selection and argument development: You will select a focused topic for their project based on our reading and discussion of Bram Stoker's Dracula. You will select a topic much like you would for a conventional essay, working toward a specific thesis/argument. Your project’s topic will be developed from either one of the prompts listed below

Determine your genre: after you choose your topic and develop your thesis, you will need to determine the best way to present your argument. The genre you decide on it up to you, with one exception. It cannot be a conventional essay. Your project could be a website, podcast, a poem, a painting or other form of artwork, a digital exhibit, a game, or any other genre (more examples are listed below).

Project Description

Each project should be accompanied by a 300-500 word description of your project that explains your project's argument, and the rationale behind choosing the selected modality/form. This description should answer the following questions:

• • What is the argument/thesis of your project?

  • Why did you choose this mode of expression (i.e. what does the form itself contribute to the point or focus of your work)?

  • How did you decide on the modality?

  • How does it contribute to your project’s goal?

  • Any other information you’d like to know prior to grading your project.

Note: Your multimodal/creative project should still make an argument/have a thesis (implicit) just as a conventional essay would, and the form it takes should add something to the argument.

Possible project prompts (just choose one prompt)

You can adapt these and use them for their multimodal projects.

1. Explore the relationship between data collection, technology, and power in Dracula. How is the battle between Dracula and the vampire hunters waged using knowledge and data collection or informational technology? Relevant contexts: Modernity and technology

2. Explore the role of women and/or sexuality in Dracula. In what ways does this novel challenge or reaffirm notions of conventional Victorian womanhood. Consider, perhaps, Mina's role in the novel, Lucy's characterization, and/or depictions of the lady vampires in Dracula’s castle (or some comparison of these aspects). Relevant contexts: The New Woman and "The Woman Question.”

3. Explore the ways in which Dracula is an invasion story, and consider what the novel might be saying about globalization, otherness, or the boundaries between the foreign and the domestic.

4. Compare and contrast Dracula with one of its film adaptations by analyzing the adaptation choices. What the differences? Similarities? How does the film adapt to reach a different audience, environment, and time period?

Possible Multimodal/Creative Ideas (these will need to be developed out by you, and just choose one):

1. Create a podcast episode in which you explore the relationship between technology, modernity, and power in the novel or offer an analysis of the multimodality of the novel’s narration in the form of a podcast

2. Adapt a scene/episode from the novel for a different time period, audience, and/or environment or adapt a scene/episode from the novel for a different modality (podcast, play, poem, etc.).

3. Create a Victorian style periodical page in which you analyze the text from the perspective of a Victorian (without their biases and prejudices), using both images and text).

4. Create a visual map (using a technology of your choice) in which you analyze a character’s movements or some other aspect of the text