Genre Flashcards
Film Genre
A category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual film share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns.
Genre Film
A film following specific guidelines according to a specific film genre. Linear cause and effect structure.
Tom Schatz
Associated with his book on film genre and genre films, Hollywood Genres
Genres of Determinate Space
- These genres (Westerns, gangster movies, etc.) take place in specific locales.
- They involve a conflict over control of that space.
- Generally a strong, INDIVIDUAL hero, enters the space, acts to resolve some conflict over control of that space, and then leaves.
- Genres of determinate space uphold the values of SOCIAL ORDER.
Genres of Indeterminate Space
These genres (musicals, screwball comedies) do not occur in particular locales or settings.
- The conflict is not over control of the space.
- The conflict involves not an individual, but a “doubled” hero, a romantic couple.
- They seek to bring their values in line with those of one another OR with those of society.
- Genres of indeterminate space uphold the values of SOCIAL INTEGRATION.
Formulas
The patterns for developing stories in particular genre.
Expectations
A viewer’s knowledge and experience while watching a film that help to anticipate the meaning of particular conventions or the direction of certain narrative formulas.
Conventions
Properties or features that identify a genre. ie: props, character types, settings, etc.
Langue
Underlying system which makes possible the articulation of individual acts of speech
Parole
Something about speaking
Genre Classicism
Establishes relatively fixed sets of formulas and conventions or with a specific place in history.
Revisionist Genres
Individual genre film that revise the genre and questions the normal aspect of said genre.
Hybrid Genres
2 genres in one film.
