Film Genre Analysis
Module 7 Film/television genres
Objectives: In completing this module, you will be able to:
- understand and apply different approaches for analyzing genre: formalist, audience analysis, and ideological.
- understand the history and evolution of advertising and the forces shaping that history
- devise different genre analysis activities for use in the classroom
- understand and analysis characteristics of different types of genres for the genres described in this module
- present specific characteristics of specific genres not necessarily included in this module to your peers.
There are a wide range of different types of film genres: detective, action/adventure, mystery, science fiction, horror, gangster, romance, comedy, musical, …show more content…
For example, members of Star Trek fan clubs create their own versions of Star Trek programs in the form of edited videos or fanzine stories (Jenkins, 1992). These edited videos or fanzines might, for example, introduce homoerotic themes into the stories, such as Spock and Kirk engaging in a homosexual relationship. In constructing these virtual worlds, the Internet users and fan-club members are resisting or rejecting the discourses of bureaucratic management or traditional middle-class values to adopt alternative discourses of sexual desire and expression. Or, audiences may role-play performances of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which they mimic and parody culturally-dominant …show more content…
(Crime Scene Investigation), Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues, Homicide, Law & Order, Miami Vice, Prime Suspect, Poirot, Inspector Morse, and NYPD Blue develop the main character of the detective in more detail across the series, so that audiences establish a relationship with the character.
The detective/film noir genre focuses on the character of the often cynical, worldly detective figure—Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, Philip Marlowe, as well as the detectives who appear on PBS’s Mystery Theater: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Adam Dalgliesh, Inspector Morse, Brother Cadfael, Ross Tanner, Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, Hetty Wainsthrop, Dave Creegan, and Cordelia Gray. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/detectives/index.html ; see also http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Television/Shows/Mystery/
PBS Teaching Guide: The Hound of the Baskervilles http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/hound/tguide.html These detective heroes are often complex figures, whose identity is often
Objectives: In completing this module, you will be able to:
- understand and apply different approaches for analyzing genre: formalist, audience analysis, and ideological.
- understand the history and evolution of advertising and the forces shaping that history
- devise different genre analysis activities for use in the classroom
- understand and analysis characteristics of different types of genres for the genres described in this module
- present specific characteristics of specific genres not necessarily included in this module to your peers.
There are a wide range of different types of film genres: detective, action/adventure, mystery, science fiction, horror, gangster, romance, comedy, musical, …show more content…
For example, members of Star Trek fan clubs create their own versions of Star Trek programs in the form of edited videos or fanzine stories (Jenkins, 1992). These edited videos or fanzines might, for example, introduce homoerotic themes into the stories, such as Spock and Kirk engaging in a homosexual relationship. In constructing these virtual worlds, the Internet users and fan-club members are resisting or rejecting the discourses of bureaucratic management or traditional middle-class values to adopt alternative discourses of sexual desire and expression. Or, audiences may role-play performances of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which they mimic and parody culturally-dominant …show more content…
(Crime Scene Investigation), Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues, Homicide, Law & Order, Miami Vice, Prime Suspect, Poirot, Inspector Morse, and NYPD Blue develop the main character of the detective in more detail across the series, so that audiences establish a relationship with the character.
The detective/film noir genre focuses on the character of the often cynical, worldly detective figure—Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, Philip Marlowe, as well as the detectives who appear on PBS’s Mystery Theater: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Adam Dalgliesh, Inspector Morse, Brother Cadfael, Ross Tanner, Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, Hetty Wainsthrop, Dave Creegan, and Cordelia Gray. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/detectives/index.html ; see also http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Television/Shows/Mystery/
PBS Teaching Guide: The Hound of the Baskervilles http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/hound/tguide.html These detective heroes are often complex figures, whose identity is often