Dawn Of The Dead 1979 - Image 2 Analysis

Fran and Stephen’s relationship throughout the film is always shown to be very strained; this image supports my point perfectly. In terms of conventional horror themes, this illustrates sex and the taboo. Their relationship envisions that of a break down, this photo visualises Fran and Stephen naked in bed, looking away from one another. We get the idea that they’ve just had sex as they’re both naked, but this photograph conveys how they’re not expressing compassion towards one another, their static body language suggests negative emotions.

In terms of Fran’s nudity, it visualises that of the “Male Gaze” theory; appeasing the male-dominated Cultural Dominant Ideologies – this is the theory most associated with Laura Mulvey whom, through her own experience of voyeuristic men and her feministic viewpoint, examined how Hollowed cinema represented woman, which was prominently for the pleasure of men.