FILM 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: First Spaceship On Venus, Kurt Maetzig, Science Fiction Film
30 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Technology-centered histories: what is used to make, produce these films, progressivist, fatalist. Production-oriented and rom-centered histories: what is cinema as an art, down sides of this is that it freezes the concept of cinema; becomes a bit normative description, adaptationist, developmental. Exhibition-oriented histories: mode of address, practices of exhibition. In the chapter, what is the purpose of genres? from the book cinema genre, Rapha lle moine invites us to consider the functional dimension of genre instead of trying to classify them. She writes, classificatory logics, because they conceive of genre as a group of films displaying shared characteristics bypass the functional dimension of genre. genre not just a question of form but also the function. To understand the phenomenon of genre, therefore, one must pay attention to the. Established formulas for communication" genre above all is a form of communication, that"s its function. The studios own the stars not the genre.
