Genre Analysis
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Genre Analysis(part One)
SMST 101 The Moving ImageLecture 3
•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
•(genre) has taken as its principal task the division of the world of literature into types and the naming of those types
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71aQC4FRBc
Romantic Comedy?
“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.”
Problematic Genre
Can films always be categorised?
Sticking to the Formula
Knowing when to break the conventions
•Genre?
•Should it be categorised?
•Does Tarantino want it to fit a genre?
Kill bill
Breaking With Convention
Why?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHWJ9jPYw8
When?How?
Cycles of change...
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?
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
Stars who define a genre
RoB Schneider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH2mS5Wm7N0
Denzel WashingTon
Art-house as a genre?
Why discuss film in terms of genre?