Kiss Of The Vampire

Question 1

Capitalized font of the title

Answer 1

Creates connotations linked to the vampire film genre and the blood dripping from the letter ‘V’

Question 2

Gloomy grey, black and brown colour palette

Answer 2

Reinforces the film’s dark, scary conventions

Question 3

Red highlight colour

Answer 3

Draws attention to the attacking bats

Question 4

Vampire & blood

Answer 4

Key visuals signifiers for the genre

Question 5

Enigma codes

Answer 5

Used to create suspense, surrounding the connoted relationship between male and female vampires

Question 6

Semantic codes

Answer 6

Images of the bats and their conventional association with vampirism and horror in general

Question 7

Symbolic codes

Answer 7

Horror, darkness and fear

Reinforced through signifiers such as the moon and the male victims ‘submissive sacrifice’action code

Question 8

Binary opposition

Answer 8

Opposing representations of the vampires and their victims

Romantic connotations of ‘kiss’ opposed in the film’s title to the stereotypical ‘vampire’ monster

Question 9

Political context

Answer 9

The 1960s is often seen as the start of women’s sexual liberation, aided by events like the introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1960

More women than ever entering the paid workforce and sixties feminists were campaigning for equal pay, an end to sexual harassment and more equality between men and women in wider society

In America, equal pay legislation was passed in 1963

Question 10

Both women

Answer 10

Pale dresses made of light materials-Reinforce their femininity by highlighting the curves of their bodies and revealing the flesh of their upper chest and arms

Question 11

Woman on the left

Answer 11

Gesture of a stereotypical passive victim of the ‘monster’, his power highlighted by the fact that he’s holding her just by one arm

Question 12

The second woman

Answer 12

Gesture is more aggressive, and the submissive oppose of her male ‘victim’, represent her in a non-stereotypical dominant way

Question 13

Vampire

Answer 13

Seems uncharacteristically fearful in his gesture with his arm thrown across his body in a defensive gesture, protecting himself from the female vampire

Question 14

Female vampire

Answer 14

Acts as a role model for women struggling against male oppression or desperate to be seen as the equals of men, whatever the narrative or environment

Question 15

Female vampire

Answer 15

Contributing to social change by representing women in non-traditional roles, though the passive female victim does reinforce these