Genre Studies

Question 1

What is a genre code?

Answer 1

Systems of signs that can create meaning (lighting, color, music etc)

Question 2

What is a genre convention?

Answer 2

Generally accepted ways of doing something

Question 3

Context and quote for The Dry

Answer 3

Australian bushfires: “The room felt airless in the heat” “fire warning sign” “dusty scar” of a river

Question 4

Context and quote for NBNW

Answer 4

Red scare/communism - Roger thornhill dresses in a train conductor uniform with a red cap to hide amongst the american population

Question 5

Protagonist quote for NBNW

Answer 5

Resourceful, restores justice in the cliffhanger scene, manages to save his love interest by pushing one of Vandamm’s henchmen off the cliff, giving his hand to Eve and saving her.

Question 6

Protagonist quote for The Dry

Answer 6

Resourceful, calms a bar fight by using his police role and stereotypical police language such as “on the record” and “confirm your address”, life threatened with “I will skin you, killer scum”

Question 7

Convention quote for NBNW

Answer 7

Inciting incident, Thornhill coincidentally raises his hand for a drink simultaneous to the telegraph boy calling for a “Kaplan”, this disrupts the equilibrium.

Question 8

Convention quote for The Dry

Answer 8

Subverts inciting incident, begins with a murder but no previous equilibrium, introduced is a body being “the freshest” and the shock brutal murder of a “smaller”person

Question 9

Code quote for NBNW

Answer 9

Weapons signifying violence and danger, a knife is used “He’s got a knife, Look out!”

Question 10

Code quote for The Dry

Answer 10

Subverted weapons, a lighter is used by Whitlam “flicking the lighter open” against the “dull bushland”.

Question 11

Who wrote thedry

Answer 11

Jane harper