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New due date for paper: December 3 • Essays: (Essay 1) An essay at least 1,000 words in length dissecting/reading/interpreting a popular culture personality, artist, text, genre, series, episode, movie, place, product, icon, meme, etc.: worth 20% of your grade [20% of your grade]; (Essay 2) A source paper at least 1500 words in length on a popular culture phenomenon approved by me [30% of your grade]. • Tests: A take-home essay final exam [20% of your grade]. ENGL 3815
Genre ENGL 3815
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Genre • Why do we have genres? • How do genres acquire their conventions? Evolve? • Do genres die? ENGL 3815
ENGL 3815 Genre films essentially ask the audience, "Do you still want to believe this?" Popularity is the audience answering, "Yes." Change in genre occurs when the audience says, "That's too infantile a form of what we believe. Show us something more complicated." And genres turn to self-parody to say, "Well, at least if we make fun of it for being infantile, it will show how far we've come." Films and television have in this way speeded up cultural history. Leo Braudy, American film scholar Genre Tim Dirks Filmsite.org: Genres
ENGL 3815 • Thomas Schatz's life history of a genre (from Hollywood Genres) : • an experimental stage, during which its conventions are isolated and established, a classic stage, in which the conventions reach their “equilibrium” and are mutually understood by artist and audience, an age of refinement, during which certain formal and stylistic details embellish the form, and finally a baroque (or “mannerist,” or “self-reflexive”) stage, when the form and its establishments are accented to the point where they “themselves become the “substance” or “content” of the work. (37-38) • Thomas Schatz, American film scholar Tim Dirks Filmsite.org: Genres Genre
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Genre ENGL 3815 Problematic Science Fiction
Genre ENGL 3815 Problematic Science Fiction
Genre ENGL 3815 Problematic Science Fiction
Genre ENGL 3815 Grandmother and the Kids.Ursula LeGuin’s special designation for the fantastic (the Grandmother) and all the literary forms it has spun-off over the centuries. • fantasy: takes place in a ‘verse where the governing paradigm is magic. • science fiction: takes place in a ‘verse where the governing paradigm is science. Problematic Science Fiction
ENGL 3815 Franco Brambilla Invading the Vintage Problematic Genre Assignments
ENGL 3815 Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage Problematic Genre Assignments
ENGL 3815 Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage Problematic Genre Assignments
ENGL 3815 Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage Problematic Genre Assignments
ENGL 3815 Problematic Genre Assignments Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage
ENGL 3815 Problematic Genre Assignments Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage
ENGL 3815 Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage Problematic Genre Assignments
ENGL 3815 Problematic Genre Assignments Franco Brambilla, Invading the Vintage