CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marcel Proust, B.O.B, Thompson Submachine Gun
8 Dec 2017
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Plot, story, structures, conflicts, settings, themes, types of players, subjects, types of music, mood, atmosphere: form vs. Form is how you use the formal structures, which we studied in weeks 2-7: style is the approach to form. Conventions the ways of creating the world, how the myths are presented: i. e. use of song and dance to convey plot (musicals); the shoot out at noon (western), the meet cute (romantic comedy) Iconography repeating aural or visual elements of the genre: i. e. cowboy hats, six shooters, hoof sounds (western); starscapes, technology (scifi); trench coats, tommy guns (gangster) The effect of tragedy is fear and pity; not uplift. Examples: greek, elizabethan, tragedy of blood, jacobian: comedy, man limited, fallible; opposite of tragedy. A stylization/exaggeration of plot and character helps create distance so you can laugh. Shows the discrepancy between reality and ideal; has something to say: the most intellectual of the three basic genres.
