FILM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Different From The Others, Oberhausen Manifesto, Quentin Tarantino
5 Dec 2017
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Hard-boiled detective films: focus on a protagonist who represents the law or more ambiguous version of it. Prescriptive and descriptive approaches: viewers and filmmakers alike classify a movie according to their experience and understanding of a genre, both prescriptive and descriptive approaches can point viewers to particular readings of films. Classical and revisionist traditions: significance of a particular film"s engagement with genre conventions is also shaped by its situation within classical or revisionist traditions. Historical paradigms: presumes that a genre evolved to a point of perfection at some point in history and that one or more films at that point describe the generic ideal. Structural paradigms: relies less on historical precedent than on a formal or structural ideal that may or may not be actually seen, in a complete or pure form, in any specific film. Part four - critical perspectives (history, methods, writing)
