"Genres are created through a process of repetition and recognition leading to anticipation and expectation" Graham Burton 2000 - Film Theorist
Genre (Conventions) - Representations (Characters / CRASH ) - Narrative (Themes / Roles / Theory)
How typical are your three main texts of their genre:
Answer by referring to:
- Key signifiers and iconography
- Storyline's and plots
- Characters and their functions
- Stars / Celebrities
- Camera , sound , editing
- Dialogue , language, music.
Genre / Expectation
- As genres become established audiences begin to have certain expectations.
- Ever genre contains generic conventions that an audience could expect.
- Sin City , Fish Tank , District 9 rely upon differing conventions relating to genre.
Like Genre:
Familiar , understand them and like them.
Give us an informed choice.
How Genre Changes
- All texts combine:
"familiar and unexpected" (G.Burton 2000)
"same but different" (Mickey Lace 1999)
How Genre Changes
- repetition of the conventions could lead to boredom. To keep us interested producers offer us what we know with a twist. This can be within:
- Hybridity
- New technologies
- Modern in social issues
- Different characters
Hybridity/hybrid:
-The fusion of combination of different genre styles.
- Repetition and difference: most media texts have a pattern of repetition and difference. They have identifiable similarities, but contain new elements.
Steve Neale: (Film Theorist)
"genres are instates of repetition and difference" he add's that "difference in absolutely essential to economy of genre"
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