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Lesson
objective
What is genre?
Define genre
What is genre?
Genre films are commercial features which
particular genre
We can predict throughout the film
Evolution of Genre
1950s
To now
conventions?
Challenging genre?
Knowledge of genre
Enjoy the unexpectedness
Evolution of genre
Film noir modern cinema
E.g. Pulp fiction
Do audiences create
genre?
If an audience like a particular film,
Auteur
French word for author
Andre Basin developed idea of Auteur
The director/producer becomes a
1980s
evolve?
Audiences want something new
Desensitised
Want to be challenged
But not too much!
Lesson 2 Genre
Quick fire
What is genre?
What was the first film to challenge
genre?
Why do institutions challenge genre?
Wednesday
Parody 1990s
genres?