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GENRE THEORY AMELIA STONE

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GENRE THEORY AMELIA STONE

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STEVE NEALE• GENRES ARE INSTANCES OF REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE

• PLEASURE IS DERIVED FROM REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE – THERE WOULD BE NO PLEASURE WITHOUT DIFFERENCE

• WE MAY DERIVE PLEASURE FROM OBSERVING HOW THE CONVENTIONS OF THE GENRE ARE MANIPULATED

• STRETCHING OF A GENRE IN NEW DIRECTION, SHIFTS OUR EXPECTATIONS

• PLEASURES CAN BE FROM SHARING OUR EXPERIENCE OF A GENRE WITH OTHERS

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•GENRE IS CONSTITUTED BY “ SPECIFIC SYSTEMS OF EXPECTATIONS AND HYPOTHESIS WHICH SPECTATORS BRING WITH THEM TO THE CINEMA AND WHICH INTERACT WITH THE FILMS THEMSELVES DURING THE COURSE OF THE VIEWING”

•PLEASURE OF POPULAR CINEMA LIES IN THE PROCESS OF DIFFERENCE IN REPETITION

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GENRE AND AUDIENCE

•ONE PLEASURE MAY BE RECOGNITION OF THE FEATURES OF A PARTICULAR GENRE BECAUSE OF OUR FAMILIARITY WITH IT – WE NEED KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENRE IN ORDER TO FOLLOW THE PLOT

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•JONATHAN CULLERGENERIC CONVENTIONS EXIST TO ESTABLISH A CONTRACT BETWEEN CREATOR AND READER

•RYALLTHIS FRAMEWORK IS PROVIDED BY THE GENERIC SYSTEM

•DANIEL CHANDLEREACH WRITTERN TEXT PROVIDES A ‘READING POSITION’ FOR READERS – A POSITION CONSTRUCTED BY THE WRITER FOR THE ‘IDEAL READER’ OF THE TEXT

EMBEDDED IN THE TEXTS ARE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE IDEAL READER – INCLUDING THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE SUBJECT MATTER AND OFTEN THEIR CLASS ,AGE, GENDER AND ETHNICITY

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RICK ALTMAN

•GENRES ARE USUALLY DEFINED IN THE TERMS OF MEDIA LANGUAGE – SEMANTIC ELEMENTS AND CODES OR CERTAIN IDEOLOGIES AND NARRATIVES – SYNTACIS ELEMENTS

E.G. IN WESTERN – GUNS, HORSES, LANDSCAPES

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• PROBLEMS WITH GENRE CLASSIFICATION:

1. IT’S A USEFULL CATEGORY BECAUSE IT BRIDGES MULTIPLE CONCERNS

2. TS DEFFINED BY THE FILM INDUSTRY AND RECOGNISED BY THE MASS AUDIENCE

3. THEY HAVE CLEAR, STABLE IDENTITIES AND BORDERS

4. INDIVIDUAL FILMS BELONG WHOLLY AND PERMANTLY TO A SINGLE GENRE

5. GENRES ARE TRANSHISTORICAL

6. THEY UNDERGO PREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENT

7. THEY ARE LOCATED IN PARTICULAR TOPIC, STRUCTURE AND CORPUS

8. GENRE FILMS SHARE CERTAIN FUNDEMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS

9. THEY HAVE EITHER A RITUAL OR IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION

10. GENRE CRITICS ARE DISTANCED FROM THE PRACTICE OF GENRE

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HOW GENRE IS USED• PRODUCERS OF FILMS USE GERNE AS A TEMPLATE

• DISTRIBUTORS/PROMOTERS – GENRE PROVIDES ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO THE AUDIENCE IS AND HOW TO MARKET THE FILM FOR THAT AUDIENCE

• FOR THE AUDIENCE – IT IDENTIFIES A LIKED OR DISLIKED FORMULA AND PROVIDES CERATIN RULES FOR THE SPECTATOR IN TERMS OF ANTICIPATION OF PLEASURE

• WHEN A GERNRE BECOMES CLASSIC THEY CAN HAVE MAJOR INFLUENCE – PRODUCTION CAN BECOME FASTER AND MORE CONFIDENT AS THE FILM MAKER IS FOLLOWING A TESTED FORMULA AND HAVE AREADY SHORTHAND TO WORK WITH

• ACTORS CAN BE FILTERED INTO GENRES AND ARE ASSUMED TO HAVE ‘STAR QUALITY’ WHEN THEIR MANNERISMS, PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES, WAY OF SPEAKING AND ACTING FIT A CERTAIN GENRE.

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•THE VIEWER:

BECOMES A GENERIC SPECTATOR AND CAN BE SAID TO DEVELOP GENERIC MEMORY WHICH HELPS WITH THE ANTICIPATION OF EVENTS.

•FILM IS A POST-MODERN MEDIUM IN THIS WAY BECAUSE MOVIES MAKE SENSE IN RELATION TO OTHER FILMS, NOT TO REALITY.