FILM 1000 Study Guide - Film Genre, Psychological Horror, Dramatization
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Film genre is a set of conventions and formulas repeated and developed through film history. Our diff"t responses to particular genres define the film community to which we belong. Genres arose to classify literature, music, theatre, painting, other ats. Three functions: provide models for producing other works, direct audience expectations, create categories for judging or evaluating a work. First films: objects and events; scenics, historical events. As they expand employ theatre scenes, sporting events, slapstick comedy; westerns w/ outdoor filming. Relates to fordism, economic model of us in 20th century, increase amount and quality of output through the dicision of labor and the mass production of parts = decrease of price and increase of consumptions. Relates to film genres b/c they eneabled producers to reuse script formular, actors, sets and costumes to create many diff"t modified versions of a popular movie. Used a production system based on the efficient recycling of formulas and conventions, stars, an sets.