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Kiss of the Vampire Flashcards

1
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What wave of feminism was occurring during 1963?

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Second wave feminism

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Why was their frustration in this era?

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Due to the limited roles
- during the second wave of feminism there was a renegotiation of women’s rights and roles

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What were the 1960s for women?

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The beginning of women’s sexual liberation

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What happened in 1963?

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Equal pay legislation

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5
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What happened in 1967?

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Contraceptive pill

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What happened in 1969?

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Divorce reform Act

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Who was KOTV produced by?

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Hammer Film Productions

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What is Hammer Film Productions?

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A British film production company known best for its gothic, “Hammer Horror” films

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Iconography used

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  • Bats (Semantic code)
  • Fangs
  • Blood/biting (Proairetic code)
  • Vampires
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Significance of vampires

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The struggle of insatiable animal urges

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Metaphorical meaning behind vampirism

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  • Homophobia
  • STDs
  • Sexual predators
  • Addiction
  • Social exclusion
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“In Eastman colour”

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Modern setting of an old story (Dracula)

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Typography

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  • Sans serif - gothic
  • Blood dripping - fang
  • Wooden texture - church, coffin, stake
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Dress codes (blonde woman)

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  • Tight dress
  • High heels
  • Blonde
  • Promiscuous

Women as sexualised beings, objectification for the male gaze (Laura Mulvey)

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Mise en scene

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  • Dark colour pallet
  • Fog, night, full moon
  • Gothic castle

Reinforces dark and scary conventions

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16
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“Kiss of the vampire”

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Romantic narrative

Symbolic code - Male victims submissive sacrifice juxtaposed against the sexual allure of the female characters
- Horror, darkness and fear

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Male victim

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  • Neck visibly shown - vulnerable
  • Progressive, changing representation - vulnerable to women (second wave feminism)
18
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Theorists

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  • Steve Neale - genre
  • Levi Strauss
  • Van Zoonen - feminism
    -Gauntlett
  • Levi Strauss - binary oppositions
  • Stuart Hall - Stereotyping
19
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Binary Oppositions

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Men/ Women
Day/ Night
Good/ Evil
Life/ Death
Weak/ Strong
Vampires/ Victims
Bite/ Kiss

20
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Steve Neale

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Genre

Difference = Romance, connoted power of the female antagonist
Repetition = Horror symbolism/ iconography

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Gauntlett

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  • Narrowly defined beauty standard of thin, white and youthful
  • Attempting to provide women with a more empowered sense of sexual identity
22
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Stuart Hall - stereotyping

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Blonde woman reduced to a few characteristics, reflects inequalities of power in patriarchal film industry

23
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Stuart Hall - inequalities of power

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Reflects patriarchal unease around women’s sexual liberation

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