HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - Buffalo Bill, Stagecoach, James Fenimore Cooper
2 Apr 2014
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Hollywood as a genre system: western films were the single most popular genre in the us in the 1960s, genre (type), a form of product differentiation. It was an economic category: a system of classification they were associated, certain studios made certain film genres and that"s how. Film genre reader, barry k. grant, ed. (from intro to the book) Genre movies are those commercial movies which, through repetition and variation, tell familiar stories with familiar characters in familiar situations. They also encourage expectations and experiences similar to those of similar films we have already seen. Characteristics of the western: setting: 1865-1900, the american west, character types and their relationship to each other, a. The townspeople or agents of civilization: b. The natives or outlaws who threaten the first group: c. the heroes (official and unofficial unofficial hero usually helps the official hero, chase narratives, revenge narratives and captivity narratives.
