MSTU1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vagina Dentata, Abjection, Heteronormativity
Week 7 Lecture - Genre
Genre:
• Type or kind – groups of texts
• Narrative and aesthetic conventions
• Audiences expectations
• Social and ideological functions
Conventions and Constraints:
• “Its structuring effects are productive of meaning; they shape and guide… Generic structure
both enables and restricts meaning, and is a basic condition for meaning to take place”
Marketing:
• Unspoken contract – certain kind of emotional payoff
• Intertextual Relay – genre for the audience through publicity
• Synthetic memory sense
Gothic Horror:
• Melodramatic Gothic Novels: 1760s to 1890s.
• ‘Haunted house’ image in literature – sublime landscape
• Able to express the things that frighten us – isolation, fragmentation of identity, insanity
• The Orphanage
Other Horror:
• Related to other genres
• Do’t fit eatl ito oe o – genetic evolution
• Fantasy and sci-fi
• Happen in our own reality – reason of why these things happen, normal for the story world
• Often about demons from the past, occult beliefs and superstitions
• Psychological explanations – abnormal elements
Traits of the Fantastic:
• Umbrella genre – storytelling
• Disturbance of time, space and reality
• Displacement of causation and agency
Characteristics:
• Prompt fear, anxiety, visceral response
• Ideas mapped onto main character – phobic impulses – trapped inside perspective
• Explore boundary states (life-death, self-other, innocent-evil)
• Monsters and the conceptual categories - Fission (splitting), Fusion (joining), Magnification
• View from killers pov – break frame of reference and become the monster hunting the prey
Style:
• High contrast, low key, under lighting, backlit
• Excessive shadow - elliptical editing
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Document Summary
Genre: type or kind groups of texts, narrative and aesthetic conventions, audiences expectations, social and ideological functions. Its structuring effects are productive of meaning; they shape and guide generic structure both enables and restricts meaning, and is a basic condition for meaning to take place . Marketing: unspoken contract certain kind of emotional payoff, synthetic memory sense. Intertextual relay genre for the audience through publicity. Haunted house" image in literature sublime landscape: melodramatic gothic novels: 1760s to 1890s, able to express the things that frighten us isolation, fragmentation of identity, insanity, the orphanage. Traits of the fantastic: umbrella genre storytelling, disturbance of time, space and reality, displacement of causation and agency. Style: high contrast, low key, under lighting, backlit, excessive shadow - elliptical editing, circularity of narrative, silhouette, difference from the natural. Narrative structure and thematic content: repetition (counting, asking to identify mirror the image, darkness of spectral night vision, whatever has been repressed with come back.
