- Genre is a set of conventions recognisable usually through iconography, familiar narrative, mise-en-scene, actors and style of representation.
- Genre is not static but constantly renegotiated between industry and audience. A combination of familiar reassurance and new twists.
- Genre offers comforting reassurance in an uncomfortable world, threat is quashed, outlaws becoming civilized gangsters are punished. Genre is a way of tidying up the mess of life.
- Genre functions like language; a set of rules and vocab with which to organise meaning .
- Genre does not have to be fixed as one certain genre, it can be a hybrid of different genres. For example you can mix a Romantic film with a Comedy to make a separate hybrid genre called a Romantic-Comedy.
Saturday 2 October 2010
Genre
What do I know about Genre?
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A gd start Luke! You need to go further by exploring more what you have learned about genre, sub-genres, hybrids and hybridisation and the theorists: What have you learned about Neale's relationship between Audience, text and genre!
ReplyDeleteFollowing this explore codes and conventios of thrillers. Lots to do and i need to see more "shape" to your blog! You must stay on top of this