cover work for Genre

UNIT ONE

• Genre is a crucial tool, the word has the same origin as genus, the classification used by natural scientists.


• every year around 300 new films are released in the UK and thousands of films are available on television and video.


• Trying to decide the criteria for grouping films encourages to study the film closely


• looking at similarities and differences between films, both within groups and across different groups, helps us to think about how films are understood and what their meanings might be.


• Genre is an important concept throughout film and media studies and it is now becoming familiar in everyday use.


• Genre are not fixed in using genre our objective is not to allocate films permanently to a fixed category


• commercial successful films we may find a pattern of repetition and difference.


• Their are many arguments and debates about the concept of genre and about how it is used.
• genre is associated with film making, which means that most of the films discussed in terms of genre are part of mainstream commercial cinema.

UNIT TWO

• A mixed genre, an action comedy. The action refer es to martial arts and modern technology.
• Hy birds genre means two genres combined together
• Genre is dynamic with no criteria for entry into classification.
• The definition of any particular genre is fluid, changing over time and changing with cultures
• Iconography derives the Art history and refers to a classification of paintings based on common images and sounds.
• it can be difficult to see the difference between iconography and style
• Iconography refers to objects or sounds
• style refer es to how they are presented.
• Narrative refer es to both story structure that films employ and the specific narrative devices or elements that are used in the such construction.

UNIT THREE

• The genre critic or theorists,according to Altman:
• reads industry documents and critical papers,
• he begins to outline and analysis genre
• Hollywood studios now distribute films rather than make them

UNIT FOUR

• This is the basic premise of most genre studies. In genre films, the expectations of audiences are meant by the familiar elements and are undermined and confounded by the varying use of those elements.

Emotional pleasures

The emotional pleasures offered to audiences of genre films are particularly significant when they generate a strong audience response.

Visceral pleasures

Refers to internal organs are defined by how the films stylistic construction elicits a physical effect upon its audience.

Intellectual puzzles

Trying to aneavel a puzzle whilst watching the film

Counter- culture attraction

Altman;s theory argues one primary pleasure offered to the viewers is the cultural rules and regulations.

Counter reading of genre films

Generic pleasure can take place from counter reading of the repertoire of elements.

Genre communities

genre is designed to be noticed by the mass media.

• Repetition and Variation the horror genre is defined by a repertoire of familiar elements that are manipulated in order to generate fear.
• Audiences expectations of the genre are therefore manipulated.

UNIT FIVE

• Stars were an important part of theatre and show business generally in the nineteenth century
• Cinema created a new kind of star in the early twentieth century.
• Individual films are usually conceived with a particular star in mind.