Essay about Mittell’s Television Genre Theory and Louie

Intertwined within the novel is the presence of many different genres including letters, articles and magazine clippings, and pictures. At first sight there is the

Netflix has engendered a generic recategorization of texts into previously established genres, as well as into newly established generic categories meant to organize these diverse texts in new and very specific adjective based genres, such as political dramas or spiritual documentaries,which combine descriptive and generic words meant to capture viewers. This generic specificity also accounts for the fact that texts are often cross-listed across multiple of these traditional and contemporary genres. Additionally, texts are categorized on each user’s homepage according to generic categories generated by the user’s profile and viewing history, with categories like, “you might also like this” and “because you watched…”. In accordance with Mittell’s genre theory, which states that genre is a cultural practice situated in larger cultural hierarchies and power relations and accounts for specific attributes of the medium, Netflix’s unique genre categories account for the particular attributes of the medium, but also, significantly, of the new digital platform as well. In making these arguments, I analyze the functions of the platform which create “streaming flow”, its algorithm, format, and generic categorization, as well as texts such as Arrested Development (2003-) and Stranger Things (2016-), that comprise streaming flow and which are generically categorized by

A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. While films have at least one major genre, there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four coinciding genre or sub-genre types that they can be identified with them and most can be filed into categories that are easily recognizable to audiences (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 1998, p. 4.1). However, ever so seldom a film comes along that breaks free of its invisible bounds of genre and it leaves the audiences confused about the actual existence of genre. One such film is a film that most are familiar with Steven Spielberg’s classic Saving Private Ryan.

Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the linguistic features of these functions (Brett, 1994). Genre knowledge played an important role in helping novices understand how to produce academics, professional or educational discourse. Genre study can help to improve Chinese students’ movie

Popular culture is the artistic and creative expression in entertainment and style that appeals to society as whole. It includes music, film, sports, painting, sculpture, and even photography. It can be diffused in many ways, but one of the most powerful and effective ways to address society is through film and television. Broadcasting, radio and television are the primary means by which information and entertainment are delivered to the public in virtually every nation around the world, and they have become a crucial instrument of modern social and political organization. Most of today’s television programming genres are derived from earlier media such as stage, cinema and radio. In the area of comedy, sitcoms have proven

Maybe you don’t have a specific set of claims or beliefs you want your audience to adopt. Even if you do, provide brief responses to the following:

I hope your second week of WR 121 is going well. I also found the kidnapping scenario interesting because it helped me put in perspective how genre affects our writing. The example you used in your third paragraph is quite interesting as well, i never thought about how everything can be a genre. I wonder if genre is so complex, is their limits to what can’t be considered a genre?

The producers will develop a test and the audience will tell the producers whether it is something they want to see or they are not going to see. This can affect the next text to be produced in an attempt to conform to the audience demands. Looking at the development of different types of genres and the development of films within the same genre, it’s possible to look at similarities and differences and identify changes in society and audience ideologies and tastes.

In a day in age where we live in a vast multimedia culture, content is supplied to us through distinct and diverse outlets including video, animation, audio, and text. Within these outlets comes more a defined set of media. Text is anything you can read which includes books, magazines, newspapers, and advertisements. Audio on the other hand is anything you can listen to which includes podcasts, music, and radio. Once you get down to these specific levels, a higher classification level is required in order to define, describe, and organize types of compositions. This requires genre which is a subcategory of media or entertainment that is established and defined by certain heterogeneous characteristics.

I chose to approach this assignment by focusing on an aspect from Devitt that I was still having a hard time figuring out. The new conception of genre is a more complex approach than the older conventional concept of genre. Devitt express her concern with the old concept of genre and present evidence or theory that the older concept may present restrictions whereas the newer concept, although more complex allows for more diversity in the construction of the genre. As stated on page 575,” Once our attention shifts to the origins of genres, it also shifts away from their formal features” The new concept is to create a genre that will unify two divided opposite groups to help us understand the process of language in writing a genre.

In the recent decades, many movie that appear either it on TV(TV Cable) or on Cinema. That movies are having a variative genre but there is also films that have same genre from each other. If we take a deep look into films nowadays, there is a common genre that used by writter to make a story. That genre is Investigation. Many film in TV use that genre. For example: CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Castle and many again. Some other writter use an investigation genre with adding another genre like horror or comedy that in films iZombie.

The new TV show Scream Queens premiered September 22, 2015 on FOX. Scream Queens centers on the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority, who is targeted by several killers dressed in red devil outfits. The show mixes black comedy and the slasher subgenre with the classic whodunit. The series includes violence, gore and the use of sexual language, the show tends to be more satirical than terrifying. In addition, Scream Queens is a unique show because it parodies and pokes fun at the horror genre. An analysis of the pilot episode from Scream Queens (2015- present) illustrates how the TV aesthetics of the show develop and portray the themes of death, revenge and good vs evil. Plus, demonstrates the mood of fear and humor and lastly, the narrative of a comedy and horror/slasher genre. Scream Queens illustrates how post network television uses unique storytelling methods that are distinguishable from classic TV network aesthetics. Ultimately, this essay will explain how each aesthetic element: the narrative, cinematography, production design, sound and editing illustrate how the show’s genre mixing of horror and comedy creates an acceptable representation of the horror genre on TV.

According to Lealand and Martin (2001), despite outer differences, each element of television is connected in a way. For example, the schedule provides a controlled grid to organise strands genres, genre groupings connect across programmes and programmes connect to nearby programmes (Lealand & Martin, 2001). Moreover, every individual element of a television programme connects, in some way, to the producers purpose of the show (Lealand & Martin, 2001; Horrocks, 2004). Thus, each feature of a programme is considered in terms of the appeal to its target audience and genre. This essay will analyse how the TV3 show Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand) is structured and produced to suit the purpose of the show and appeal to the target audience. Furthermore, reinforcing the idea that programmes have a motive for every individual element in their structure. Firstly, the genre of Dancing with the Stars, time-slot in schedule, and the aspects of its television station have influence in the show’s target audience and purpose (Creeber, 2008). This influence of target audience can also be seen when analysing the structure of the show. Furthermore, the producer uses various production techniques to appeal to the audience. Thus, by looking at the different aspects of Dancing with the Stars it’s clear to see the relationship between the production and structure of the show, with the intended audience. Moreover, the show effectively validates the sense that every aspect of television

What is a TV format? As Professor Jean Chalaby mentioned in his book that there are arguments about how to define TV format because it is a very complicated commodity. However, TV format can be defined in four dimensions, which including TV format as a licensed remake; TV format as a recipe; TV format as a proof of concept and as a method of production. (Chalaby, 2015) Based on the definition, this essay will analyse The Real Housewives as a TV format, with a special focus on one of the series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Genre is known to change discourse by the format the information is presented to the audience (Varela, 2008). It is also a category of composition that is characterized by a particular style, form or content as dictate by Webster Third Dictionary. However Trosborg (n.d) stated that for the past decade, genre identification, classification and description have been scholarly concern. Certain scholars dictate that genre is defined primarily around its basic external criteria such as journals and newspaper discourse while other scholars stand on the opinion that genre can be classify by its communicative purpose, linguistic content and form of role its play in the discourse made (Trosborg, n.d).