COMM 1P96 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.docx
12 Dec 2014
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Film noir iconography: film noir genre in 1940"s and 50"s, black and white spy thrillers or detective stories, high contrast lighting, muted colours, urban setting with suspense and intrigue, retrospective voice over narration, hardboiled detective and femme fatale. Evolutions of genres: popular genres were originally seen as lowbrow mass culture, genres continually evolve, gain more critical acceptance, audience become aware of generic formula and accept parody, twists, and spoofs (eg. mockumentary, genre hybrids (p. 235) emerge, drawing upon audience expectation while adding new elements, eg.
