SOC 902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blazing Saddles, Film Genre, Reception Theory
4 Dec 2018
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Film genre: the story of a community disturbed by conflict conventionalized according to recognizable codes (familiar characters, actions, conflicts, and solutions signifying assumed systems of values and beliefs) Determinate space: reinforce social order, determined setting (ex. Indeterminate space: reinforce social integration, setting doesn"t define the genre (ex. This is a hegemonic (dominant forms of ideology is so prevalent that they"re normalized) ideological process. Genre ideology (system of values and beliefs): helps determine its cast of characters, actions, conflicts, and solutions; is represented through repeated, ritualized codes. Repeated because the genre has meaning for the community that produces and receives it. Genre plot structure: establish basic conflicts, animate conflicts, intensify conflicts, resolve conflicts. Evolves from ideological transparency to relative opacity, straightforward storytelling to self-conscious formalism, celebrating to questioning its conventions. Standard development of a genre: primitive: simple, naive, black and white values and conventions (western ex.
