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Genre
- Genre is defined as a style or category of Art, literature or Film with
specific traits, plot devices and character archetypes
- The Five
Functions of Genre
- To reinforce cultural ideas and
values.
- To create a set of audience
expectations
- Creation of characteristics
by producers which
audiences are more likely to
recognise
- A relationship between audiences and
producers to minimise chance of finacial
failure
- Dynamism and flexiblity: the genre
changing and adapting over time.
- To reinforce cultural ideas and
values.
- Iconography
- Objects or Symbols that represent a genre, or
work of art, specific items becoming symbolic of
a genre.
- E.G. Car chases, guns, fast cars
etc. are all icons of the action
genre
- Smoking, guns etc. are icons of the
Film Noir Genre.
- E.G. Car chases, guns, fast cars
etc. are all icons of the action
genre
- Objects or Symbols that represent a genre, or
work of art, specific items becoming symbolic of
a genre.
- Genres are often combined into a genre hybrid,
combining the cliches and motifs in film, for example
romantic comedies or SciFi fantasy films
- Altman's Semantic, Syntactic theory.
- Semantic
- Concerned with the conventions of a genre that
communicate with the audience, for example
characters, props, locations, filming style and music
- E.g. In a film noir we would expect to see cigarettes, trench
coats, guns etc.
- E.g. In a film noir we would expect to see cigarettes, trench
coats, guns etc.
- Concerned with the conventions of a genre that
communicate with the audience, for example
characters, props, locations, filming style and music
- Syntactic
- Concerned with the relationship between practical
elements and narrative structure
- E.g the Femme Fatale is usually presented as sympathetic
originally before being presented as manipulative and cruel.
- E.g the Femme Fatale is usually presented as sympathetic
originally before being presented as manipulative and cruel.
- Concerned with the relationship between practical
elements and narrative structure
- Semantic
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