Q17: Explain what role genre plays in the process of adaptation, and provide selected examples of works that illustrate that role.

Question 1

What is genre?

Answer 1

• a basic defferentiation, categorization of recurring, repeating and recognizable elements into one group
• genre systemizes movies, books, etc.

Question 2

How does genre influence the process of adaptation?

Answer 2

• it may transform the adapted work into something completely different
• genre may also extend the adaptation and enhance the original
  recently, there have been discussion among critics regardind adaptation as a separate genre

Question 3

How does genre expand the discourse of adaptation?

Answer 3

• it allows new elements

- can help in advertising (sometimes by using auteur theory)

Question 4

Give examples of movies where genre plays an important role in adaptation.

Answer 4

“Warm Bodies” (zombie action movie romance comedy teen drama) –> Romeo and Juliet

Question 5

Explain the generic hybridity of the vampire.

Answer 5

• we have main Dracula and then we have the rest
• it would be more surprising now to actually have the original representation of the vampire as sth scary
• parodies of vampires subverted our expectations