INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Elapidae, Film Genre, Stagecoach
13 Feb 2013
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Western: was always concerned with the land, landscapes. People working in western genre; took this possibilities to enhance what they wanted to do. Common catalysts that spur on generic transformation: technical changes, industrial changes, sociocultural changes. Film genres allow for a society to tell itself the same basic story over and over again in an almost titualistic fashion. Study of myth most influential because of: claude levi-strauss. Purpose of myths: to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction. Elapids: killing the father and marrying the father. ** thomas schatz"s : film genre and the genre film. Its efforts to solve, even if temporarily the conflicts the have disturbed the community welfare pg. The western, for example, despite its historical and geographical distance from most viewrs, confronts real and immediate social conflicts: individual versus community, town versus wilderness, order versus anarchy, and so on pg.
