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ryley Hughes

Main Film Genres - 0 views

www.filmsite.org/genres.html

Film genres genre movies categories focus subject motive audience media communication Networking

shared by ryley Hughes on 01 Apr 14 - Cached
  • high energy
  • exciting storie
  • new experiences or exotic locales
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  • light-hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter
  • sinister actions of criminals or mobsters
  • serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction
  • dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop
  • frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time
  • Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way
  • centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography
  • quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative
  • They are sometimes an offshoot of fantasy films (or superhero films), or they share some similarities with action/adventure films
  • horror and heartbreak of war
  • often paired with other genres
  • easily evaluate a film within its genre and allow for meaningful comparisons and some judgments on greatness
  • ryley Hughes on 01 Apr 14
     
    This webpage relates to our earlier discussion about genre theory which depicted some forms of media are more prone to fit into a particular genre label.  More so this page outlines the main types of genres in film which could be helpful for the media episodes project, in order to help identify an appropriate audience and content per the given episode content.  
jorybrodkin

Introduction to Genre Theory - 0 views

www.aber.ac.uk/...intgenre2.html

genre theory reading writing

shared by jorybrodkin on 01 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • reducing complexity
  • frameworks may function to make form
  • transparent
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  • foregrounding the distinctive content of individual texts
  • genre is a framework within which to make sense of related texts
  • genre knowledge is typically tacit and would be difficult for most readers to articulate as any kind of detailed and coherent framework
  • one needs to encounter sufficient examples of a genre in order to recognize shared features as being characteristic of it
  • are mediating frameworks between texts, makers and interpreters.
  • genre makes possible the communication of content
  • constrains the possible ways in which a text is interpreted, guiding readers of a text towards a preferred reading
  • film requires several acts of "framing" it: as a fiction, as a Hollywood movie, as a comedy, as a Steve Martin movie, as a "summer movie" and so on
  • Genres offer an important way of framing texts which assists comprehension
  • orientates competent readers of the genre towards appropriate attitudes, assumptions and expectations
  • principal factor
  • directing of audience choice and of audience expectations
  • organizing of the subsets of cultural competences and dispositions
  • watching, listening to and reading
  • Familiarity with a genre enables readers to generate feasible predictions about events in a narrative
  • Different genres
  • contracts
  • between the text and the reader.
  • expectations on each side
  • communication
  • functions
  • epistemology
  • communicative
  • frame
  • offer various emotional pleasures such as empathy and escapism
  • identification of a text as part of a genre
  • enables potential readers to decide whether it is likely to appeal to them
  • derive a variety of pleasures from reading texts within genres which are orientated towards entertainment
  • jorybrodkin on 01 Feb 14
     
    This piece describes how genre is effective in reading and other forms of rhetoric. It can allow readers to get deeper into text, and understand the form of communication on paper. Similarly to genres in movies and TV, genre in written works allow a reader to get the sense of what is "going on". Reading more and more, a reader is able to understand and decipher which genre is which. They also enable readers to connect emotionally to a text, and experience feelings of the writer/characters.
Sasha Solomon

The Public Domain Review - 0 views

publicdomainreview.org/about

shared by Sasha Solomon on 18 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Sasha Solomon on 18 Feb 14
     
    A not-for-profit website that have work that fall out of copyright and enter the public domain. This website has collections of text, images, films, articles and more.
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