Suspiria

Paradigmatic features in Suspiria:

  • Props - Knives, noose, gloved hands, barbed wire
  • Weak and vulnerable female protagonist - damsel in distress archetype 
  • colour scheme - red and blue - prominent primary colours - lighting achieved through red and blue filters, highly typical of 70s european 
  • Soundtrack - use of suspenseful non-diegetic sound, diegetic female screaming 
  • Iconographic features such as cherry red blood
  • Retro - fashion, particularly 70s, muted colours 
The Iconography heavily references the horror genre in riptide

Surrealism - An artistic movement in France in the early 20th century, a text that follows the logic of dreams 
How does riptide make reference to surrealism and un chien andalou?
- Discontinuity 
- Cuts one point to another 
- An eye line match or a match on action
- The reason there is an intertextual reference to surrealist cinema is to provide audiences to the gratification of social interaction 

Structuralist approaches: binary oppositions 
- Its day because its not night
- Bart Simpson is really naughty as Lisa Simpson is really good and a nerd 
- Psycho is set in an isolated motel because the other setting is a big city 

Producers use binary oppositions to ...
- Create comedy 
- Creates drama
- easy for the producer

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