Genre Investigation

What is Genre?
Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art/culture, for example: Music. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones were discontinued, often works fit into multiple genres by the way of recombining these conventions. Genres are often divided into sub-genres. Literature, for instance, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, the classic genres of the Ancient Greece, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic. When filmmakers and movie critics refer to film genre, they generally mean a specific style or subject matter. While a movie may have elements of different genres, it is often classified under a single film genre for reference purposes. A filmmaker often understands what elements are expected in a specific film genre and steer the film towards that end. Genre determines:
Setting & Location. Characterisation. Plot & Structure. Themes & Concerns. Narrative address. Style. Budget.

What genre theorists can you find?

The word genre comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for 'kind' or 'class'. The term is widely used in rhetoric, literary theory, media theory, and more recently linguistics, to refer to a distinctive type of 'text'*. Robert Allen notes that 'for most of its 2,000 years, genre study has been primarily numerological and typological in function. Daniel Chandler: Conventional definitions of genres tend to be based on the notion that they constitute particular conventions of content of content (such as themes or settings) and or form (including structure and style) which are shared by the texts which are regarded as belonging to them. Every genre positions those who participate in a text of that kind: as interviewer or interviewee as listener or story teller, as writer or reader, as a person interested in political matters, as someone to be instructed or as someone who instructs; each written text provides a reading position for readers, a position constructed by the writer for the ideal reader of the text. Steve Neale: Declares that genres are instances of repetition and difference. Difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre. John Hartley: the same text can belong to different genres in different countries or times. Genres tended to be regarded as fixed forums however contemporary theory emphasizes that both their forms and functions are dynamic . David Buckingham: genre Is notsimply given by the culture rather it is in a constant process of negotiation and change 1993.

What genre theories link to the horror genre?

The genre theory of Charaudeau & Maingueneau states that genre can be determined through four different analytic conceptualizations. They state that genre is determined by its: 1)Linguistic Function. 2)Formal Traits. 3)Textual Organization. 4)Relation Of Communicative Situation To Formal & Organizational Traits Of The Text. Like other genre movies any given horror film will convey synchronic association, ideological ad social messages that are part of a certain period or historical moment. One can analyze horror films in terms of these periods or moments, just as one can do with westerns or gangster movies. But, unlike those genres, horror also goes deeper, to explore more fundamental questions about the nature of human existence, questions that, in some profound ways, go beyond culture and society as these are organized in any given period or form. Here lies the special significance of horror, the factors that truly differentiate it from the other genres and that make it conform most deeply with our contemporary sense of the world. Stephen Prince From this we understand that prince is saying that the horror genre is the most aristocratic of the film genres as it is the most realistic of them all with ideal and genuine concepts and ideas for the narrative of the story.