What We Do In The Shadows. S1 E1&2 (2019) Waititi & Simms
Postmodern Overview
- A parody on vampire horror movies and the cliched representations from pop culture.
- An intertextual bricolage of documentary & vampire horror conventions
- A mixture of the fantastic and the mundane
- Demolishes the grand narratives surrounding:
- Aristocratic Monsters
- The banality of 21st Century life
- The absurdity of small government bureaucracy
Cultural Competence and Vampires
To fully understand What We Do In The Shadows, you have to have a degree of cultural competence in terms of vampire horror conventions and cliches:
Here is a slide show which explores some of the conventions of the vampire and explores some of the ways which this text holds them up to parody or pastiche.
TASK:
Complete a set of notes of examples / analysis from the assigned episodes.
See Google Classroom for a personalised copy of the document