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    Alazae Te Hau Film Genre Analysis – The Matrix This film genre analysis will identify, scruitinies and discuss the various and diverse filmmaking elements of the Wachowski’s Sci-fi/Action epic, The Matrix (1999), and how they demonstrate the typical codes and conventions of the action subset genres, Western and Asian martial arts. Specifically, the climactic scene of The Matrix (01:52:56 – 01:58:49) portraying the film’s main character, Neo’s fight with the antagonistic agent Mr Smith in an underground

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    Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element

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    Horror Film Genre Essay

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    The two movies I viewed were Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, which were both directed by Tobe Hopper. Both films displayed the general rules horror films generally follow through the use of horror film genre conventions. For instance, both movies follow the good verses evil story lines and in each the end does ultimately win. However, this is not entirely true in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The friends represented the good and the chainsaw carrying monster and his family portrayed the evil

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    The Vietnam film is a specific sub-genre of the conventional Hollywood war film that arose as a result of the 1960s counter culture. According to Elliot Stegall’s article Ideological, Dystopic, and Antimythopoetic Formations of Masculinity in the Vietnam War Film many American war films depicted the glorification of war and emphasized the concept of American masculinity (Stegall). Previous to the Vietnam period, Hollywood war films stuck to contemporary tropes. These films often re-enact the idea

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    Genre is a reflection of society. Film noir is a genre that has a distinctive relationship with the American society from 1941 - 1958 because it reflects America’s fears and concerns from when they experienced major upheaval after The Great Depression and during World War I. In particular, the unstable atmosphere from the aftermath of World War 1 as Bruce Crowther, author of the book ‘Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror’, elaborates on how Film Noir films produce “a dark quality that derived

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    traditional endings of western genre films; first, they ride into sunset, it means they will leave and stay away from society; second, they hang up the guns, it means they will stay in the society. In the film Shane, even though the Joe Sttarret’s family asked him to stay longer after he killed Ryker’s men, but he decided to leave the village by giving peace in the village. The ending scene of Shane is not traditional ending as like western genre films, Shane from the film Shane rides into dead of night

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    A body genre is one that literally attempts to provoke affect, or a physical response as opposed to an intellectual one, from the viewer. The repetitive formulas and spectacles of film genres are often defined by their differences from the classical realist style of narrative cinema. In Linda Williams’s, Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, she describes how cow these classical films have been characterized as efficient action-centered, goal-oriented linear narratives “driven by the desire or

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    gangster genre were life lessons that faced social issues and revealed the reality of materialism. The typological characteristics in the gangster films’ were stories being told from a criminal’s point of view. Most gangster protagonists in the films are born outsider, immigrants, or other groups who continues to be treated as outsiders. The gangster genre illustrates immigrants and nativists who had different perspectives about what is the ‘American Dream’. The history of the gangster genre is difficult

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    The horror genre has become a popular genre among the movie industry. It has become a popular genre since it has been evolving throughout the years it has been around, but one of its major climax points was when the subgenre of zombies came into the mix. The zombie genre became very popular in the year 1968 when it was first introduced in George Romero’s film Night of the Living Dead. Night of the Living Dead is one of the most prominent zombie films till this date especially since it has introduced

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    New Classics of the Horror Film Genre Essay

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    horror film history. The monster movie of the past makes way for the thriller or slasher movie of the present, while the monster villain gives its role to the deranged, psychotic serial killer. Friday the 13th series, Nightmare on Elm Street, Copycat and Seven have become the new classics in the genre of the horror film. With films like The People Under the Stairs, Nightmare on Elm Street, and New Nightmare, Wes Craven has proven himself to be a master of the creation of modern horror films. With

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