Kiss Of The Vampire

Question 1

What are conventions of genre in KOTV? (RESISTS)

Answer 1

• Setting - decrypt castle, moody low key lighting - horror
• iconography with blood dripping from text - horror and subgenre vampire
• Typography of wooden stake appearance, recognisable as vampire subgenre
• Iconography of bats - recognisable as vampire subgenre
• Stock characters - damsel in distress (supernatural), villian/monster (horror)
• hyper expressive performance of characters recognisable of horror genre

Question 2

How do contexts link to the construction of Gender in KOTV?

Answer 2

• 2nd wave feminism underwater
• removal of Hays code
• after WW2 women wanted to be more dominant

Question 3

How does Van Zoonens idea if context influencing gender link to KOTV?

Answer 3

• contexts such as removal of Hays code, 2nd wave feminism underway and men’s fear of women’s increasing dominance

Question 4

How does Van Zoonens idea of Gender constructed through discourse in KOTV?

Answer 4

• Patriarchal discourse - idea of women represented as weaker, less powerful, subservient to men with the rep of female victim, and as sexualising with the female vampire
• Feminist discourse - the idea of women as powerful, strong dominant roles with female vampire

Question 5

How does Van Zoonens idea of men represented as spectacle, women as objects/sexualising in KOTV?

Answer 5

• idea of women sexualising with the representation of female vampire and victim
• could be argued the female vampire is partially spectacle