CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Angie Dickinson, Screwball Comedy Film, Stagecoach
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Topic: genre, part two: transforming genre, date: 23 february 2016. Agenda: an introduction to generic transformation, the mythic nature of genre films, accounting for generic transformation. An introduction to generic transformation: in our first week on genre, we emphasized its static nature by foregrounding those conventions that are continuous across multiple films and multiple eras in a genre"s evolution. The most influential model of that sort in cinema studies understands film genres in terms of myth. And each genre has, through the years, dynamically evolved as shown by the ways its individual films manipulate those oppositions. Accounting for generic transformation taken from many films. The generic bag contains conventions, structures, and indeterminate and determinate argues, combines elements of screwball comedy with elements of the western in order to produce a movie that responds to the historical moment in which it was produced. Common catalysts that spur on generic transformation: technical changes, industrial changes, sociocultural changes.
