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This document discusses genre theory and genre signifiers in film. It provides background on genre theory from Andrew Tudor and explores how genres can be identified through commonly recognized formal elements and features. It also prompts discussion on genre signifiers for specific genres like romance, horror, science fiction, and others. Participants are asked to consider genre signifiers like colors, costumes, character types, objects, settings, music, and plotlines. The document concludes by discussing genre hybrids and Tudor's view that notions of genre may be ineffective due to cultural differences in understanding genres.
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This document provides information about film genres and their conventions. It discusses key concepts around genre, including what defines a genre, common conventions, and how audiences interact with and derive pleasure from genres. It also examines subgenres and hybrid genres. The document analyzes Graeme Burton's theory of the key elements that make up a genre, including protagonists, stock characters, stock situations, icons, background/décor, and themes. It applies these elements to the horror genre and the film Scream. The document also discusses how genres must combine familiarity and innovation to evolve over time without becoming too predictable.
Genre analysis a2
This document defines and discusses the horror genre of film. It notes that horror films aim to create fear and dread in the audience through portrayals of their worst fears and nightmares, often involving mythical creatures or violence. The document outlines several subgenres of horror, including slasher, supernatural, zombie, comedy-horror, teen horror and monster films. It provides examples for each subgenre and discusses some of the common themes and characteristics of horror films.
Genre analysis a2
This document defines and discusses the horror genre of film. It notes that horror films aim to create fear and dread in the audience through portrayals of their worst fears and nightmares, often involving mythical creatures or violence. The document outlines several subgenres of horror, including slasher, supernatural, zombie, comedy-horror, teen horror and monster films. It provides examples for each subgenre and discusses some of the common themes and characteristics of horror films.
Genre analysis
This document discusses different types of genres across various media like film, literature, art and music. It provides details on genre theory and how genres are categorized in different fields. Some key points made include that genres can be defined based on common narrative elements, conventions or shared traditions in a given medium. However, genre boundaries are often vague and many works span multiple genres. The document also gives examples of specific genres like the adventure genre in film, which revolves around a hero's conquests and explorations in exotic settings.
Genre Investigation
A genre refers to a category of artistic works defined by similarities in form, style and content. In film, genres are based on common narrative elements and conventions that films of that type follow. Examples of popular film genres include horror, comedy, romance and action. Genre allows films to be easily categorized and marketed to audiences. While genres help audiences understand what to expect, they can also lead to stereotyping that overlooks the uniqueness of individual works.
Conventions of the horror genre
This document discusses conventions of the horror genre including common settings, characters, iconography, narratives, and subgenres. It also summarizes some key genre theories. Specifically, it notes that dark, isolated, or natural settings are commonly used to set the atmosphere in horror. Character archetypes include families, friends, and vulnerable characters. Iconography includes low lighting, weapons, and dark colors. Narratives often involve a group being persecuted by an antagonist with an unpredictable ending. Subgenres discussed are gothic, slasher, psychological, paranormal, gore, and found footage. Theories addressed are those proposed by Altman, Dyer, and Stacy regarding pleasures, escapism, and genre evolution over
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This document provides an introduction to postmodernism. It begins by discussing some previous artistic movements and "isms" that preceded postmodernism. It then addresses some of the key concepts of postmodernism, including an inability to create anything truly new, experimentation with existing forms, and a loss of clear distinctions between high and low art. The document goes on to define and provide examples of several postmodern features, such as pastiche, parody, intertextuality, and self-reflexivity. It concludes by discussing how postmodern artists attempt to create new works in a postmodern world and assigns the students a homework task analyzing a postmodern text using some of the key terms and concepts covered.
Introduction to genre
This document discusses the concept of genre in media. It defines genre as a style or category of art/literature with socially agreed upon conventions that have developed over time. Examples of broad genres include films, plays, graphic novels, and video games, with more specific subgenres within those. Mainstream Hollywood cinema relies heavily on genre conventions to deliver familiar content with new twists. Financial reasons also contribute to genres, as studios can maximize profits by reusing sets, crews, and talent specialized in particular genres. The document outlines common conventions for narrative, mise-en-scene, sound, cinematography, and editing that define different genres like westerns, romcoms, horror films, sci-fi, and
Introduction to genre
This document discusses the concept of genre in media. It defines genre as a style or category of art/literature with socially agreed upon conventions that have developed over time. Examples of broad genres include films, plays, graphic novels, and video games, with more specific subgenres within those. Mainstream Hollywood cinema relies heavily on genre conventions to deliver familiar content with new twists. Financial reasons also contribute to genres, as studios can maximize profits by reusing sets, crews, and talent specialized in particular genres. The document outlines common conventions for narrative, mise-en-scene, sound, cinematography, and editing that define different genres like westerns, romcoms, horror films, sci-fi, and
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Film genre
The document discusses film genres and their importance. Film genres help audiences decide what types of films they want to watch based on categories like sci-fi, horror, or romance. Genres are also important for film producers when marketing movies to specific target audiences. Some common genre conventions or clichés include explosions in action films, detectives in crime films, and aliens in science fiction films. However, many modern films combine elements of different genres and are considered hybrids.
Evaluation of ‘the spectator’
The document evaluates how the media product conforms to or challenges conventions of real thriller films. It aimed to conform to some conventions such as having a male antagonist and female victim but challenged others such as using eerie sounds. Research identified conventions like plot twists, dark settings, and loud sounds. A British institution like Hammer Films would be more likely than Hollywood to distribute the product due to its low budget, adherence to thriller conventions, and target niche audience.
Learning ObjectivesAfter reading this chapter, you should be abl.docx
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
· Explain the difficulty in defining genre, and contrast the advantages and disadvantages that genres offer film studios, filmmakers, and audiences.
· Describe the popular film genres of westerns, gangster, mystery, and film noir.
· Describe the popular film genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
· Describe the popular film genres of romantic comedy, musicals, and documentaries.
· Categorize films into genres, recognize when films cross genres, and analyze films using genres.
· Trace the history of popular sentiments and social issues through the evolution of films inside genres and recognize various social functions of genres.4.1 What Are Movie Genres?
A genre is a type, or category, and genre films are usually easily recognizable as part of a certain genre. This is because they tend to use familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography (visual imagery with symbolic implications), all of which lead viewers to have certain expectations about what the movie will be like before actually watching it. For various reasons, which we shall note, genre films are prime candidates for analysis to reveal significance far deeper than the surface stories. Many genres also have a variety of related subgenres with more narrowly defined formulas and expectations. For example, any film in the horror genre can be expected to produce fear or anxiety in the viewer; some of the many subgenres of horror films include the vampire film, the zombie film, the monster movie, the mad doctor movie, the insane slasher-killer movie, and the psychological horror film, among others.
In Evil Dead II, a freewheeling horror film directed by Sam Raimi, Ash, the protagonist, played by Bruce Campbell, experiences some genuine terror, including (but not limited to) cutting off his own possessed hand with a chainsaw. Audiences and critics alike found it intense and scary. They also found it hilarious. How can a movie that includes the following exchange not be?
Ash (talking to mirror): I'm fine . . . I'm fine . . . (Mirror Ash jumps out of the mirror and grabs Ash.)
Mirror Ash: I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?
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Little Big Man is a revisionist western. It takes the genre's conventions and reverses them. The Indians are the heroes and General Custer is the villain.
With its violence, gore, and shocks, there is no question that Evil Dead II, considered a cult classic, is a horror movie. With lines like the foregoing, there is also no debating that it's a comedy. So is it a horror film or a comedy? Why can't it be both? Evil Dead II is an example of a movie that crosses genres. The word "genre" comes from the Latin genus, which refers to birth, family, race, or class, and by extension to any sort of categorization. However, as we will see, there is much debate over just what the term genr ...
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- 1. Discussion Point How far are your cinema-going decisions influenced by generic enjoyment?
- 2. Genre a. Kind; sort; style b. A particular style or category of works of art; esp. a type of literary work characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.
- 3. LO: • To understand what genre signifiers are. • To pick out generic signifiers relevant to specific genres. Genre signifiers Monday 23rd September 2013
- 4. Andrew Tudor (Genre Theory, 1974) ‘Chicken & Egg’ dilemma. Commonly recognized formal elements and common features of a specific genre need to be identified.
- 6. Round Robin What colours and costume would you associate with your genre?
- 7. Round Robin MOVE POSTERS ROUND… What character types would you expect?
- 8. Round Robin MOVE POSTERS ROUND… What objects, props and symbols do you associate with the genre?
- 9. Round Robin MOVE POSTERS ROUND… What settings do you associate with this genre?
- 10. Round Robin MOVE POSTERS ROUND… What music types and sounds to you expect?
- 11. Round Robin MOVE POSTERS ROUND… What plotlines are typical of this genre?
- 12. Genre hybrids You will rarely watch a ‘pure’ genre film. Most films typically include a romantic storyline- however, this does not categorize such films as ‘Romance’. What films can you think of that are genre hybrids?
- 13. Andrew Tudor (Genre Theory, 1974) Tudor commented that the best way to view these SIGNIFIERS were by watching film parodies- in order for the humour to work an understanding of generic traits is needed. What film parodies can you think of where the understanding of generic traits is important to the humour of the film?
- 14. Andrew Tudor (Genre Theory, 1974) Different cultures may not share the same pre-conceptions of genre: East Asia: Wuxia genre European culture: Swashbuckling movies The key component in both being swordplay and honour. Therefore Tudor finds notions of genre ineffective- too many ‘free-floating’ variables.
- 15. Discussion Point Tudor claims that the notion of ‘genre’ is ineffective. Discuss whether you agree or disagree with this statement.
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