MCC-UE 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cinemascope, De Facto, Auteur Theory
15 Oct 2016
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Genre is a category of kind of text within a specific media. No consensus on what exactly makes a genre. Director, writer, studio, producer, or filmmaker group. Ex. war film, buddy film, police drama. Can also divide genres according to who creates/uses it: Ex. film noir came out of film scholarship. Genres employed by the industry for publicity purposes (help audience identify type of film) and for more efficient and profitable production. It is more useful to identify genres as containing a set of key textual properties and/or stylistic conventions, keeping in mind that any "rule" must not dogmatically held to. What uses &/or pleasures does genre provide? film genres provide a set of terms that enable film discourse: a shared language and interpretive frame genres create interpretive communities, which offer the pleasure of shared viewing/discussion. Genres often model and rehearse common cultural narratives/beliefs/values within identifiable conventions. Allow recognition of familiar codes that make for easy viewing.
