Cover work - Wed 10.03.09

Unit 1:

• Genre orginates from France, it is a french term given for "type" or "categorry"
• Genres are not fixed
• By having a genre it makes producers, audience and scholars understand a range of films.

Unit 2:

There are different ways how genre can be classified. Some include the following:

• Iconography refers to common images and icons that are seen to be in a particular genre
• style refers to the camera angle, the way the film has been edited, special effects etc
• Setting - location
• Audience response- audience reactions, physical ,emotion, mental.

Unit 3:

• Altman is a theorist who analyse's and looks at characteristics of a particular movie associated with different genre's
• "B" films and genres, like genre fiction, were seen as "low status" by critics and commentators
• Another theorist Maltby stated that 'Hollywood is a generic cinema, which is not quite the same as saying it is a cinema genres'

Unit 4:

• There are a number of different pleasures that people get from different film genres, they are...

1. Emotional Pleasures - Movie genre's make people feel different feelings. for example romantic genre's may make the audience feel happy and in love, a horror genre may make them scared

2. Visceral Pleasures - The style of the film has a particular physical effect on an individual

3. Intellectual Puzzles - This allows the audience to get involved within the movie, trying to solve the mystery and unraveling murders etc

4. Counter-Culture Attractions - This is where the audience can find out the genre by its typical conventions of that particular genre

• The apparatus theory is a theory that argues that audiences are passive recipients; the reading of the film is imposed upon them by the films structure
• The strongest elements of genre is the emotional response

Unit 5:

• Theorist Dyer stated that Stars are seen as "Commodity", which is an important asset or element of making and selling a film
• Theorist Ellis states that stars hold a promise to the audiences
• Film theorist "Dyer" stated that Stars are seen as "Commodity", which is an important asset or element of making and selling a film