Genre

 Read Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts and answer the following questions:


1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important?

mise en  scene of the deep space indicates sci fi 

2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre?

genres are recognisable by repeated conventions 

3) What are the different ways films can be categorised according to Bordwell? 

country , star , technical , style , series , Audience  

4) List three ways genre is used by audiences.

use of prior knowledge , compare text , rejection of a text 

5) List three ways genre is used by institutions or producers.

attract a audience , marketing texts , production

Read Media Factsheet 126 - Superheroes: A Genre Case Study and answer the following questions:

1) List five films the factsheet discusses with regards to the Superhero genre.

X Men , Avengers , Spiderman , Guardians of the Galaxy , Agents of shield 

2) What examples are provided of how the Superhero genre has reflected the changing values, ideologies and world events of the last 70 years?

Bad guys threatened the peace of a nation

3) How can Schatz's theory of genre cycles be applied to the Superhero genre?

innovation : visuals established by comics 
classical : codes and conventions being replicated in film and Tv  

Task 2: Genre analysis case study

Carry out your own genre analysis using the model provided by media theorist Daniel Chandler. Choose a film or TV text and answer the following questions - brief answers/bullet point responses are fine:

General

1) Why did you choose the text you are analysing?
it is a classic thriller film  

2) To what genre did you initially assign the text?
action/thriller

3) What is your experience of this genre?


4) What subject matter and basic themes is the text concerned with?

a disruption of peace and characters have to solve the problem

5) How typical of the genre is this text in terms of content?

very typical - scary music , actions 

6) What expectations do you have about texts in this genre?
suspenseful music action scenes 

7) Have you found any formal generic labels for this particular text (where - try imdb.com if unsure)?


8) Which conventions of the genre do you recognize in the text?

Violence , scary music, eeriness 

9) To what extent does this text stretch the conventions of its genre?
not very 

10) Where and why does the text depart from the conventions of the genre?

there is a bit of comedy and horror

11) Which conventions seem more like those of a different genre (and which genre(s))?

the blood and death of characters - horror

12) What familiar motifs or images are used?
Blood 
Mode of address
1) What sort of audience did you feel that the text was aimed at (and how typical was this of the genre)?

Adults - typical

2) What assumptions seem to be made about your class, age, gender and ethnicity?


3) What interests does it assume you have 

Thrillers 

Relationship to other texts
1) What intertextual references are there in the text you are analysing (and to what other texts)? Intertextuality is when a media product references another media text of some kind.


2) In terms of genre, which other texts does the text you are analysing resemble most closely?
Other thrillers 

3) What key features are shared by these texts?
Conventions like music a fear felt by people 

4) What major differences do you notice between them?

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