Film in NYC – Wolfen is a horror movie, of a sort, but to my mind—as someone very susceptible to horror scares it is not terribly scary.

Wolfen is a horror movie, of a sort, but to my mind—as someone very susceptible to horror scares it is not terribly scary. if you find certain sequences overly disturbing you can always skip through them). It is also, as are all the films we watch this term, a product of its time–so even if it tries to suggest certain “progressive” politics it may also be relying on certain strange atavisms. 1. What, according to the was “planned shrinkage” in the context of late 1970s/early 1980s NYC and how does it connect to the plot of Wolfen?2. Based on both the reading and your own observations, what do you think Wolfen is trying to suggest about the relationship between capitalism and nature? 3. Discuss the film’s contrasting views of the almost-obliterated South Bronx and the other kinds of spaces depicted in the film. What kind of juxtapositions is Wadleigh making and why? 4. What, according to the reading, is cognitive mapping and how does it relate to the film? 5. Would you say that Wolfen is just a horror film or something more? And is it, in your eyes, successful or not? For instance, the author of the essay finds it a bit the critic Vincent Canby, in his generally positive review of the film when it came out wrote:The strange ”wolfen” point-of-view sequences are the result of combining conventional photographic and unconventional electronic images, which are so good they demand better from the screenplay than the platitudinous mumbo jumbo we get about ”the balance of nature,” ”man’s arrogance” and the all-too-easy put-down of today’s wasteful, corrupt society.
https://archive.org/details/wolfen.-1981.1080p.-blu-ray.-x-264-amiable_202208And read: https://cartographiesoftheabsolute.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/neoliberalism-as-horror-wolfen-and-the-political-unconscious-of-real-estate/please answer each question with between 120 and 140 words.