FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Family Values, Heterosexuality, Classical Hollywood Cinema
7 Dec 2015
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Genre film belongs to a particular group of films and they share similarities in four areas. Every film depends on the similarities and the differences for its existence, brings satisfaction to viewer. When you go see a genre film, you know what to expect, but at the same time you enjoy films that give some differences, mutations, variations. Formula plot is the basic conflict that is familiar to viewers, one or two sentence definition that encompasses a specific genre, serves as basis for each film to deviate from. Iconography are objects that simply by their presence are important to the plot, can draw meaning from other sources, ex certain objects in movie posters tell us what genre they are going to be before we actually know. Primitive phase in which a new genre is born, has emotional impact because it"s new, conventions are established, ex. the first ever western film ever made (the great train robbery?)
