Lost Boys Notes

• Fairgrounds - environment of young people - negative representation
• generally a place for family entertainment
• Rejection of authority - on the boardwalk
• Post-modern - teenagers as vampires 
• Graffiti - no respect for the law 
• Punk representation - fits stereotype of being a violent/aggressive genre
• Poverty - kids eating from bins
• Protagonists represent audience
• Foreigners/homeless represented as the strange - empathise with song (people are strange - The Doors)
• Stereotypical teenager image - motorbike, weightlifting, unruly, ignore authority
• Protagonist - divorced, single mum - social taboo in 80s
• Aspects of horror genre - taxidermy, blood / texas chainsaw massacre
• 'Wild Kids' - 'They're just young' - protagonist accepting towards teenagers 'unruly' behaviour
• Film represents a fear of teenagers in our society - consuming popular culture
• troublemaker image - Edward Said the 'other'
• Changing identities of vampires from rich, white count to teenagers
• Stereotypical teenagers (smoking weed listening to Jim Morrison) which challenges the usual stereotypes of vampires
• Teenagers given obvious negative vampire image - causing mayhem, motorbikes, fangs etc, whereas adult vampires only have subtle hints towards them being vampires (e.g. grandad wearing sunglasses indoors, putting stake in the ground, having his section of the fridge) - teenage vampires are the only ones represented as troublemakers 
• Girl called Star - hippie name
• Mother 'hey, aren't we friends anymore?'
• Test parents patience - biological need
• Male bond between grandad and Michael mentioning sexual conquests
• suggests you need to be afraid of people in power - city hall
• Head vampire represents bourgeoisie and other vampires represent proletariat - need to kill head vampire in order to change the other vampires back to humans
• Stratification - social division
• 'The American way triumphs'
• Agreed narrative conventions - vampire needs to be invited in
• Certain vampire conventions - garlic, holy water, stake through the heart, mirrors, killing people, immortality, drinking blood
• 'Kids Sam's age need discipline' - Bourgeoisie
• Their rebellion challenges the people in power
• Edgar and Allan Frog - play on Edgar & Allan Poe