CIN240H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Real Stories, The Last Boy Scout, Intertextuality
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Genre films are commercial and feature films that through repetition and variation of themes, etc. tell familiar stories of familiar characters in certain situations. The audience plays an integral function because genres create an expectation it is. Crucial to establishing the system of cinema and its commercial success. Descriptive = the elements that classify/put the film in the genre. Crime film has existed as a genre for decades it has evolved, but maintained its elements. Crime is rooted in human behaviour, and humans are constantly. Therefore, as genres are not static, this one. Is considerably adaptable the traits of these films that unify them. As a genre lie in its strength as an anthropologically motivated. Subject (the characteristics are determined by temporal impacts, Dichronic approach looking at things happening at the same time (crime film always seems to do this, which accounts for the variations by type/subgenre) Ex. enactments of assassination, sensational journalism, gangster movement, etc.
