Genre

Exploring how genre is constructed, negotiated, maintained and defined. Musical genres are agreed by theorists to be very fluid categories. This hypothetical statement has been proven again and again as time has passed. What was the same rock in 1980 is not close to what is rock today. Because genre is always developing, the questions begin with who controls the reasoning behind genre. Exploring the purpose of genre, this paper will identify how genre has been constructed and defined. It will explore

There are certain elements that a film has to have for us to consider it being a part of the western genre. For example, when we think of a western we immediately picture an open landscape of mountain ranges, rugged lands or vast plains. We see settlers building homesteads or small towns, which often creates a main street where all the small business would be located including a jail and some saloons. Also, I cannot forget about the famous bar and gunfight scenes that will get you to the edge of

The thriller genre has undergone many changes and phases throughout the past, which is evident in the changes within its subgenres, each of which has its own distinctions. Some subgenres of the thriller genre include the detective thriller and the suspense thriller. Alfred Hitchcock revolutionized the thriller genre during his lifetime. In fact, his work defined a whole subgenre of the thriller: the suspense thriller. The thriller genre has evolved and developed over the history of film and has changed

Comparing a Theme Across Genres Sometimes people are faced with a disaster that they do not have control over. This tragedy may result in deadly outcomes. In the story, “Titanic,” written by Hanson W. Baldwin and in the story, “Notes from a Bottle,” written by James Stevenson both portray a disaster that happened to many individuals that may or may not have cost them their lives. Fictional stories have a more emotional impact on readers, and they develop feelings for the characters. On the other

Challenges of Genre for EFL teachers In teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL), teachers face a number of challenges when the pedagogy is changed to EFL method. One of the questions is how can teachers know what genre the students need to learn? This is because based on researches, genre are dependent on the discourse community. Therefore, how to explain which genre to teach by school teacher to the students? So, this has become a problem/challenge for EFL teachers to teach genre as researchers

Vertigo – Hitchcock Defying Genre “…alternatively, a film can revise or reject the conventions associated with its genre” - Bordwell Based on the French novel D’Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, Vertigo is arguably one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and the “strangest, yet most hauntingly beautiful film he had ever made” (Adair, 2002). At the time, its far-fetched plot drew a mixed response from critics – Time magazine called the movie a “Hitchcock and bull story” – but

Codes and Conventions of Genres A genre is a particular type of commodity . It has characteristic features that are known to and recognised by the audiences because the same formula is reproduced many times. Genre is a French word meaning that refers to types or categories of media products. Soap operas, situation comedies, police series, quiz shows and news programmes are just some of the genres to be found in television. Genres are identified by the particular conventions

The science fiction film genre has been around almost as long as movies have, but like the cinema it is still a fairly young art form. This genre came into existence shortly after the invention of the movie camera in 1888 and has endured for over one-hundred years. Science fiction is adaptive; it changes with the times and this trend can be seen in its incorporation of other genres, cultural history and technology. This essay will attempt to define the genre, chronicle the history and evolution,

by different genres – “a French word meaning ‘type’ or ‘kind’” (Neale Stephen, 7), including melodrama, comedy, and tragedy. Genre has occupied an important place in the study of the cinema for over thirty years. One of the biggest genres that has been evolved over the years and has many implications is melodrama. “As a theatrical genre, melodrama came into existence in the late eighteenth century in France and Germany” (Neale Stephen, 184). In the following century melodrama genre has spread and

How we choose the movie genres that we would like to watch. One could simply choose a genre to watch just by what they love to watch or by how they are feeling on that particular day. Some people have a preference towards the actors that may be performing in a particular movie genre. Others prefer more than one genre, were not subjected to just choose one genre, but some may just stick to one genre. We all have preference when it comes to movies. Some may love horror and then some may prefer