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Kiss of The Vampire - Coggle Diagram
Kiss of The Vampire
Media language
female victim (damsel in distress) - Props characters
Colour pallet - red, yellow and blue - primary colours, colours clash
'Kiss of the vampire' serif font
illustrated image - typical of the 1960s
Binary oppositions in the text (Strauss):
'kiss'
light and dark
good vs evil / antagonist vs protagonist
vampire and human
male and female
life and death
Dress codes
Women - silky/satin fitted tight dresses, high heels
Men - black cape, suit, black trousers and formal shoes , open v neckline shirt and long trousers
Gesture codes
Woman being held up by the vampire, dead, damsel in distress, vulnerable
Vampire - fangs out, arm across, active, strong, tall. Fierce, her hand raised, fangs out, strong. Vulnerable, weak, exposed, dead
Positioning/framing
Two vampires centrally framed, male vampire has more power - higher than her. Two victims below them
Colour pallet
black, red, white, yellow - conventional/typical of the genre
Choice of models/characters
Blonde woman damsel in distress
Dark haired woman (femme fatal, props characters) - aimed at young men
All white models
Context
Produced by Hammer Film Productions and distributed by J. Arthur Rank and Universal
Kiss of the Vampire was intended to be the second sequel to 1958’s Dracula
The1960s is often seen as the start of women’s sexual liberation
More women than ever entered the paid workforce in the 1960s
In the 60s feminists were campaigning for equal pay, an end to sexual harassment and more equality between men & women in wider society - wanting an egalitarian society
Birth control pill available on the NHS 1961
Abortion Act 1967
Divorce Reform Act 1969
Released in 1963
Second wave feminism
Theory
Blumer and Katz - gratification theory (PIES)
Neale - genre theory - genres are marked by reptation but also marked with change/difference
Strauss - binary oppositions
Hall - representation theory
Gauntlet - identity theory
Van Zoonen - men and women are represented differently in the media, women are objectified through the western culture
Prop - stock characters
Representation
Men
Dominant, powerful, controlling
Women
Submissive, passive, naive, vulnerable
Genre
Monsters/vampires/horror - genre hybridity
theme - fear, horror, aggressive males, myths, cluttered, busy, chaotic, hectic,