Chapter 9 Flashcards

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what is genre

A

french… kind,type… genus=classification

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what is iconography?

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a genre’s iconography consists of recurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film

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what are cycles?

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genres rising and falling out of prestige

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Robin Wood’s “basic formula”

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basic formula for certain genres, i.e.

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Freudian theses

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society built on monogamy and family has repressed sexual energy…. what’s repressed will strive to return

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