Stereotype

• theorist

  hall
• theory

  simplified representations

  unequal social power

  one less powerful as the other
• what shows this

  blonde girl on the left
• what is the shot

  long shot modified frontality
• what does her body connote

  weakness
• how is the weakness further anchored

  her being held up by a strong man
• what footwear does she have

  high heels which are impractical and suggest she doesn't have a main role and is the damsel in distress
• what does the white dress connote

  purity and innocence
• context

  part of a set of films in the monster horror cycle from 1957-1970

  films were getting more explicit and sexual and violence