Horror film conventions

SUSPIRIA (1977)

genre conventions = paradigmatic features

• non diegetic soundtrack cuts out, functioning as a proairetic codes sign posting up coming violence
• mid shot of girl hanging covered in blood, low key lighting
• suspenseful framing of female protagonist standing in corner of empty women
• consistent venerability of women emphasised through there young features and lack fighting back attitude   

References to Riptide:

• women being attacked threatened by a male figure
• stereotypically pretty women
• either lowkey or highkey lighting to connote fear or impending death  

Surrealism 

-art movement started in France

-something that follows the logic of dreams 

Un Perro Andaluz (1929)

the audience just accept the weird cuts 

Things are not questioned eg. man with hole in his hand cut to the beach 


Binary oppositions -Claude Levi Strauss theory 
day vs night
Bart vs Lessa
busy city vs quite country
noise vs silence 

Producers use binary oppositions to create a narrative

contrasts give each other meaning  

audience can instantly identifies with characters and situations

emphasise and exaggerates the two opposites