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Film genre

Film genre. A recognizable type of movie, characterized by certain preestablished conventions. Genre film categories. Western Sci-fi film Thriller Love story Fantasy Film noir Coming-of age Screwball comedy Horror Mad slasher Buddy film Woman’s film Farce.

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Film genre

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  1. Film genre A recognizable type of movie, characterized by certain preestablished conventions.

  2. Genre film categories • Western • Sci-fi film • Thriller • Love story • Fantasy • Film noir • Coming-of age • Screwball comedy • Horror • Mad slasher • Buddy film • Woman’s film • Farce

  3. Advantages of genre story telling • Economy of storytelling • Focus on archetypal ideas • Comfort of the familiar • Creativity within a norm • Custom fit to ideas being explored

  4. Disadvantages • Trades in stereotypes and clichés • Constricts creativity within a formula • Eliminates narrative suspense or surprise

  5. Westerns • Foundation westerns • Morality tales • Nostalgic or ironic tales

  6. Horror films • Mad scientist films • Slasher films • Zombie films • Human abomination films • Ghost stories

  7. Features of horror films • Unfamiliar invading the familiar • Threatening situations • Nameless fears and anxieties • Feelings of guilt • Familiar terrain • Contrast the known with unknown • Creatures, monsters, crazed individuals • Dissonant music • Feelings of helplessness • Safe world made unsafe made safe again

  8. Science fiction • Utopian • Dystopian • Near future • Distant future • Space westerns

  9. Features of scifi films • Confined by laws of physical universe (liberally interpreted) • Engage in scientific discourse • Engage in technological discourse • Space travel • Aliens • Socio-political subtexts

  10. Documentary • Topical • Polemical • Artistic

  11. Features of documentaries • Nonfiction • Actualities • Documentation • Window onto the world • Always have a point of view • Structured • Has effect on events being filmed

  12. Life cycle of genres • Primitive • Classical • Revisionist • Parodic • Homage

  13. Primitive • Naïve • Great emotional impact • Establishes conventions • The Great Train Robbery • Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari • Golddiggers of 1933

  14. Classical • Genre’s conventions well established • Balanced and rich execution of conventions • Stagecoach • Dracula • Frankenstein • The Wizard of Oz

  15. Revisionist • Turn to symbolic • Ambiguous relationship to values • Complex • More intellectual/less emotional • High Noon • Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  16. Parodic • Mocks the conventions • Exposes clichés • Produces laughter • Blazing Saddles • Rocky Horry Picture Show • Scary Movie

  17. Homage • Revisits the genre • References conventions without mocking them • Updates conventions • Open Range • Chicago • The Ring

  18. Comedy • Uniqueness of appearances and plots • Ability to affect audience attitudes • Ability to generate laughter and good feeling

  19. Comedy II • Constructed public ritual that: • Generates laughter • Enables us to acknowledge shameful desires • Helps us recognize contradictory beliefs • Subverts traditionally sanctioned self-delusions

  20. Types of comedy • Sight gags • Screwball • Slapstick • Running gags • Sentimental • Romantic • Black or dark • Parody • Satire

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