FILM 1502 1st Edition Lecture 19Outline of Last Lecture I. What are prescriptive and descriptive approached to genre?II. What is genre revisionism and why is it important to the ways that we think about contemporary genre formation?III. In what ways can we think about genre as culturally and geographically specific?Outline of Current Lecture IV. What issues does Altman mention impact classifying genre?V. How does a semantic/ syntactic approach resolve them? Do other problems loom larger still (such as hybridity)?VI. Discussion: In what ways does Once Upon a Time in the West reinforce classical notions of film genre? In what ways does it undermine them? Current LectureProblematizing Classical Notions of Genre 11/6 Genre Construction- Don’t construct themselves- Form audience expectations- Marketing, funding, and differentiationhorror costs less- Form (implications in film), narrative, structure Q1: Exclusive genre categorization: Altman’s genreAltman’s Genre- Inclusive vs. exclusive (original way) o Inclusive: list of what is contained in genre, monster means it is horroro Exclusive: list of what is true to genre, faithfulness of narrative - Dealing with sub-genre- Product differentiation-make simple to guarantee box office- Alternative approaches-need system that takes into account dynamic genre and constructive nature- *all genre changes differently* Q2: Altman: larger issue w/ semantic/syntactic approach to film genre has been that theorists historicallydidn’t apply them simultaneously These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Approaches to genre- semantic: common traits, characters, locationso semantics of musical: leading man and lady, duo, sidekick, wide angle shot, union, large sets, dance numbers, plot and song relationship, narrative development through song- syntactic: relationship of shared place holders/ themes o syntactic: thematic, characters get together, manifest destiny and man vs. wild in the western genre The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- tropes of genre: discussion of west and east, western law o revisionism in thematicso eastern lawyer coming to revise the western
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