The Representation Of Gender And Ethnicity In The Thriller Genre

Representations

Overtime the representations of certain genres have changed massively, and example of the types of genres that have changed are Horror and Thriller. Overtime many of these horror and thrillers have created many stereotypes and example of a character that is stereotyped is Dracula.

Dracula  is a very well known character in the world of thrillers and horrors, he is shown most of the time as a white male that has large fangs instead of normal teeth . The character is also shown to be really tall and wear a very long black over coat and live in castle.

Cultrial Bias - Most Actors  are white but there is a small amount of black characters that are main characters in films, for example people that are used in main films are will smith and Morgan Freeman.

Gender Bias - Most thrillers have female victim in the film that cannot be trusted in the films an example of a film that does this Friday The 13th.

Heterosexual Bias -  Homosexual, lesbians  are rarely seen on the scenes of Hollywood, but sexual killers have homosexual tendencies (dark characters)