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Genre I nvestigation

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What is Genre?

Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art/culture, for example: Music. Genres are formed by

conventions that change over time as new genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are

invented and the use of old ones were discontinued, often works fit into multiple genres by the way of recombining these

conventions.

Genres are often divided into sub-genres. Literature, for instance, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, the classic

genres of the Ancient Greece, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic.

When filmmakers and movie critics refer to film genre, they generally mean a specific style or subject matter. While a

movie may have elements of different genres, it is often classified under a single film genre for reference purposes. A

filmmaker often understands what elements are expected in a specific film genre and steer the film towards that end.

Genre determines:

Setting & Location.

Characterisation.

Plot & Structure.

Themes & Concerns.

Narrative address.

Style.

Budget.

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What genre theorists can you find?

The word genre comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for 'kind' or 'class'. The term is widely used in

rhetoric, literary theory, media theory, and more recently linguistics, to refer to a distinctive type of 'text'*. Robert

Allen notes that 'for most of its 2,000 years, genre study has been primarily numerological and typological in

function.

Daniel Chandler: Conventional definitions of genres tend to be based on the notion that they constitute particularconventions of contentof content (such as themes or settings) and or form (including structure and style) which areshared by the texts which are regarded as belonging to them.

Every genre positions those who participate in a text of that kind: as interviewer or interviewee as listener or story

teller, as writer or reader, as a person interested in political matters, as someone to be instructed or as someone who

instructs; each written text provides a reading position for readers, a position constructed by the writer for the ideal

reader of the text.

Steve Neale: Declares that genres are instances of repetition and difference. Difference is absolutely essential to the

economy ofgenre.

John Hartley: the same text can belong to different genres in different countries ortimes.

Genres tended to be regarded as fixed forums however contemporary theory emphasizes that both their forms and

functions are dynamic . David Buckingham: genre Is notsimply given by the culture rather it is in a constant

process of negotiation and change 1993.

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What genre theor ies link to the horror

genre?

The genre theory of Charaudeau & Maingueneau states that genre can be determined through four

different analytic conceptualizations. They state that genre is determined by its:

1)Linguistic Function.

2)Formal Traits.

3)Textual Organization.

4)Relation Of Communicative Situation To Formal & Organizational Traits Of The Text.

Like other genre movies any given horror film will convey synchronic association, ideological ad

social messages that are part of a certain period or historical moment. One can analyze horror films in

terms of these periods or moments, just as one can do with westerns or gangster movies. But, unlike

those genres, horror also goes deeper, to explore more fundamental questions about the nature of humanexistence, questions that, in some profound ways, go beyond culture and society as these are organized

in any given period or form. Here lies the special significance of horror, the factors that truly

differentiate it from the other genres and that make it conform most deeply with our contemporary

sense of the world. Stephen Prince

From this we understand that prince is saying that the horror genre is the most aristocratic of the film

genres as it is the most realistic of them all with ideal and genuine concepts and ideas for the narrative

of the story.