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INTRODUCTION TO FILM

INTRODUCTION TO FILM. Film Genres. Aliens (1986) Dir . James Cameron. Aliens genre analysis. Aliens genre analysis. General discussion: What do these movie posters for the film tell you about its genre: conventions, iconography, audience, etc.?. Aliens genre analysis.

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INTRODUCTION TO FILM

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO FILM Film Genres

  2. Aliens (1986) Dir. James Cameron

  3. Aliens genre analysis

  4. Aliens genre analysis • General discussion: What do these movie posters for the film tell you about its genre: conventions, iconography, audience, etc.?

  5. Aliens genre analysis • General discussion: In other words, what do you know about this film, even before you watched it?

  6. Aliens genre analysis 2. Group work: Working in groups, each focusing on one of these film genres: western, horror, science fiction, women’s film, war film; identify which parts of the film fit into the conventions of these genres, and which parts do not.

  7. Aliens genre analysis 2. Group work: What genre or genres constitute an effective and pertinent context for the reading of this film? (OGFS, p. 336)

  8. Aliens genre analysis 2. Group work: What does our analyses of Aliens say about this film’s relationship to the individual genres we identified, and to the generic system as a whole?

  9. Aliens genre analysis 2. Group work: What does our analyses of Aliens say about this film’s relationship to the individual genres we identified, and to the generic system as a whole? Furthermore, what does our class analysis tell us about the inclusive and exclusive definitions of genre, as well as diversity in film genres?

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