COMN 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quentin Tarantino, Textualism, Understanding Media

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2700
• Professor: Mark Hayward

Document Summary

Celebrities are collections of representations rather than the individuals themselves. Dyer"s concept of the star-image" as a way of analyzing a celebrity. Stars as conforming to particular types" of personality. The naturally in which we say that someone is famous" is an ideology. Genre as characteristic of texts themselves, audience behaviours and industrial practises. Genres are things that emerge from audience behaviours. Genre is something that has a life within the industry. Genres inform the media industry in a variety of ways. The concept of genre is borrowed from the french word of kind" or type". In english, it has usually been used to describe categories used to sort cultural text. Grame turner notes 3 different sites that the concept of genre plays a role in the categorization of media texts: The most well established approach to genre uses the term to describe a set of characteristics shared by a group of texts.