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Genre Analysis (part One) SMST 101 The Moving Image Lecture 3

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Lecture 4 - Part One

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Genre Analysis(part One)

SMST 101 The Moving ImageLecture 3

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•The word genre comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for 'kind' or 'class'

• Chandler, D., (2008) http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre1.html

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•(genre) has taken as its principal task the division of the world of literature into types and the naming of those types

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71aQC4FRBc

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Romantic Comedy?

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“The rationale of the test audiences who disliked the ending seems to be that

Aniston, who has gone through very public personal issues,

deserved a happy ending and to keep her guy.”

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Problematic Genre

Can films always be categorised?

Sticking to the Formula

Knowing when to break the conventions

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•Genre?

•Should it be categorised?

•Does Tarantino want it to fit a genre?

Kill bill

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Breaking With Convention

Why?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHWJ9jPYw8

When?How?

Cycles of change...

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American Sitcoms

•I Love Lucy (adapted from radio)

•1980s The happy family - The Cosby Show, Step-by-Step, Full House

•1990s - The dysfunctional family - The Simpsons, Roseanne, Married with Children, The Fresh Prince

•The ‘family of friends’ - Friends

•Unconventional - Scrubs, Sex and the City, Seinfeld

•Californication?

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1990s - 2000s ‘horror’•Beginning: Scream (1996), I Know What You Did

Last Summer (1997)

•Formula imitated:

•Sequels produced: Scream 2,

•Parody: Scary Movie

•Parody imitated!

•Conventions Broken: Ghost Movies - Sixth Sense, The Others, The Ring

•Boundaries Challenged (new genre(s)?): American Pie, Saw

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Stars who define a genre

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RoB Schneider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH2mS5Wm7N0

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Denzel WashingTon

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Art-house as a genre?

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Why discuss film in terms of genre?