CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Studio System, Melodrama, His Girl Friday
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Topic: genre, part one: defining genre, date: 9 february 2016. Agenda: parallels between the classical system and film genre, defining genre, identifying common characteristics. In other words, films made in the classical stye and genre films continued to be made long after 1960 by filmmakers from around the world. Examples of the former, such as the western and the gangster film, are relatively easy to identify due to their distinctive and stable iconography. Examples include horror, melodrama, and comedy: some genres may also be understood in terms of the emotional and physical. Intertextual relations between texts will be extremely important thomas schnatz(cid:495)s. Think of the western movie, or the musical, or a gangster film. Probably you won(cid:495)t think of any individual western or musical or gangster film, but rather of a vaguely, defined amalgam of actions and attitudes, of characters and locales. For as one sees more genre films, one tends to negotiate.
