Friday, 6 October 2017

KISS OF THE VAMPIRE

GOTHIC HORROR
1963
TARGET AUDIENCE - HETEROSEXUAL MALES

CONNOTATIVE FEATURES

  • black bats - death
  • blood/red - danger 
  • bats - vampires and blood

GENERIC CONVENTIONS

  • proarietic code shows something is about to happen(creates suspense/mystery)
  • mise en scene - bats, castle, vampire costume, stormy, full moon

AUDIENCE APPEAL

  • attractive women appeals to heterosexual men







How is the story told? (narrative features)

  • Vampire costume - gothic horror
  • symbolic code of red - death/blood/romance 
  • women in revealing clothing - objectification (the process of representing an individual as an object)/sexualisation (the process of representing an individual as purely for sex)
  • unconscious woman, wearing revealing clothing - damsel in distress/vunerable 
  • binary opposition of light and dark/ evil and innocence/ 'kiss' and 'vampire'/ male and female/ power and helplessness

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