Analysis -- Buffy The Vampire

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These rules are also applied in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and some others are devised in order to enhance storylines. This would associate Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the horror genre, although there is more to the show than vampires: there are situations involving teenage angst (especially in the given episode, because it deals with the consequences of Buffy running away from home). Some people have likened Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a hybrid of Dracula and Beverly Hills 90210, which might be an accurate description ¡V the show does contain elements of a horror movie and tries to include situations experienced in a teenage soap (the characters attend high-school and experience friendship and love).
Mise en scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is usually quite similar in each episode, and ¡§Dead Man¡¦s Party¡¨ isn¡¦t really an exception to this belief. The settings used are Buffy¡¦s house (located in a middle-class suburb), the school corridors and library, and Giles¡¦ ...

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beams of sunlight coming through windows. The light in Giles¡¦ apartment is lower than most other settings, and the moonlight shining through the window in Buffy¡¦s bedroom is unusually intense. The lighting in the emergency room of the hospital is also lower than expected, yet enough to make a reflection in the heart monitor. The costumes consist of everyday wear, and doesn¡¦t really show any distinct patterns, except near the beginning of the episode where Willow, Xander, Cordelia and Oz wear darker clothes and Xander wears a cross around his neck. The only other pattern visible would what Angel wears (though this may not be observed if someone had only seen one episode of Buffy the ...

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