...horns on the same goat.” Now that’s the spirit!” (The Help, 2011). Audiences know what to expect from movies from their Genres,” they tell their audience up front what to expect from the product they are buying. If they like a particular kind of story, chances are they will like this particular film, especially if the writer and director give the expectations a little twist” (Truby, 2010). Genre theory is used in the examination of films in order to enable the classification of films. Genres are dependent on many influences, such as story line, what the audience expects and who the director is. Genre theory is how we describe films; it is the method of shortening literary works. Plot and Story The feature-length film I chose was The Help (2013), which is an American Drama film depicting the lives of black maids and their white employers exposing the racism that the black maids faced on a daily basis. The time is 1963 set in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movement. The film that follows the lives of two black maids and a southern society girl (Emma Stone), who returns home from college, eager to launch her dreams of being a writer. Skeeter wants to write a book to explain that racism doesn’t just mean withholding of education and voting rights. It is told from the perspective of the black maids so it is narrated through the movie as the voice of black maids that suffered the racism from their employers. The interviewing of the black maids, who spent...
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...Genre Awareness Project Assignment Important Dates: 6/22: Genre Awareness Project Full First Draft due via email to me before class, and bring one clean, typed and stapled copy of your complete project to class for peer review/reading workshop. 6/23: Genre Awareness Project Pencil Grade due at the beginning of class. This should be a clean, typed and stapled copy of your complete project. 7/29: Final Portfolio due. Of the first three major writing projects, you must revise at least one but you may choose up to two to revise for a new grade (i.e., the new grade will “erase” the previous pencil grade). Barring any late or other penalties, you have the chance to improve the grade on this project, if you choose to revise it for the portfolio. The Assignment and Rationale: For this project, you are required to find three legitimate, same-genre movie posters from the last decade and write a report revealing your genre awareness findings and conclusions about both the stability and flexibility of the movie genre represented in these three posters. You may choose the movie genre, and you may find that you’re working with a multi-hyphenated genre (e.g., thriller-crime-drama). This is fine, as long as you can find three movie posters that represent this particular genre. However, I advise you to not go too obscure in your choices, as this might limit or make difficult your selection, and I also request you stay away from choosing posters for movies already clearly...
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...Genre and Genre Film Introduction to Film Rachel Kamrowski Instructor Day 5/2/2016 Genre Theory is used in the categorization of films. Genres are dependent on various factors such as story line, whom the director is, and what are the audience expectations In using genre theory we create a short cut in how we describe films. Genres are categorized into and then sub categorized depending on the story and plot. Fantasy is a genre described as, “Any film with obviously unreal, magical, or impossible situations, characters, or settings, often overlapping with various other genres, especially science fiction, but sometimes historical dramas.” (Goodykoontz, 2014) Fantasy is a genre that typically includes a crossover genre, sci-fi, comedy, drama, even horror. The Harry Potter series is a great example of a fantasy genre with crossover and sub genres. It can be categorized also as a family film, and dependent on which movie in the series we are discussing, mystery, romance, and comedy as well. Harry Potter focuses on magic and the wizarding world which is central to it being a fantasy film, an escapism experience. This type of fantasy is a contemporary fantasy with the storyline playing out in modern times. For the purpose of this paper I will focus on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. “The story at its simplest level is the idea about what happens, who does it, and all the reasons behind everything. The writer then chooses key characters and events, and arranges them...
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... Wrtg 1010-20 Using the Genre of a children’s story to articulate with monsters In Gordimers story “Once upon a time” uses the genre of a children’s story to articulate monsters in a suburban family by using the theme of a fairytale that clashes with the theme of a childrens story so he can use “monsters” in a suburban family. Gordimer uses phrases that kind of gives him the excuse to go in and articulate the monsters into the genre of a children’s story. Gordimer knew how to put everything in place to make it be called a “children’s story” Also, she the setting of the story in a good neighborhood, just people trying to be safe and you could kind of tell reading into the story a little disaster is coming, it is nothing brutal but it works for a children’s story type of theme. A fairy tale genre always ends up kind of automatically clashing with children’s stories. Gordimer is using a fairytale by saying in “For when they began to live happily ever after they where warned by that wise old witch, the husbands mother, not to take anyone of the street” This sentence right here is kind of what you get out of a fairytale genre and a children’s story genre. When they mention “happily ever after” You usually hear that phrase all the time in childrens stories or children type of things. For example: when you are watching a disney movie, which is a children’s story theme/fairytale theme, you hear them say at the end of every movie with either that very deep or very high...
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...Title Have you grown up watching movies of different genres? There is about 500,000 movies that have been made in the entire world. I, however, have seen a wide variety of different movies. Some of them come from a producing company called Disney or Pixar. I have seen a lot of Disney and Pixar movies that are pretty good. The best three animated Disney and Pixar movies are Tangled, The Incredibles, and Mulan. First of all, I think that Tangled is a pretty good Disney movie. Tangled is a movie about a princess who wants to find out why there are glowing lanterns every time on her birthday. The princess, Rapunzel, is living in a tower because a person who claims to be her mother is keeping her there. Because she has magical hair that can heal...
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...sub-genre to follow. Discuss this proposition with specific reference to the Drama Script and Film versions of the novel, along with any other relevant Science Fiction texts you have read or viewed. * Your essay should especially consider Shelley’s context and that of other writers you refer to, as well as your own context as a reader. * You should make specific reference to the texts you are discussing via both direct (quotations) and indirect (explanations) evidence. * Be sure to plan your response so that each paragraph has its own unified idea. A sample paragraph structure might look like the following: 1. Introduction – Thesis: e.g.: “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the first text which uses scientific experimentation as the basis of its plot. In doing this, it paved the way for all Science Fiction which followed…” 2. Body P1 – Author context + sub-genre features – what changes have occurred over time as a result of context? Consider Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury 3. Body P2 – Discussion of Frankenstein 4. Body P3 – Discussion of other text e.g.: War of the Worlds (make some reference to Frankenstein as well) 5. Body P4 - Discussion of other text e.g.: There Will Come Soft Rains (make some reference to Frankenstein as well) 6. Body P5 – Relevance of Frankenstein today in a completely different context from that of its first publication 7. Conclusion – Look at legitimacy of the Science fiction sub-genre as the...
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...Aar-Paar is a 1954 Bollywood film by Guru Dutt. I would categorize this film mainly as a Romantic genre because the main plot surrounds Kaalu trying to attain the love of Nikki and gaining the acceptance from her father to marry her. There are various subgenres and themes found throughout the film. One subgenre would be the dichotomy between the rich and the poor as Nikki’s father refuses to accept Kaalu because he is poor. Furthermore, this film also presents the theme of ‘Good versus Evil’ as Kaalu tries to escape the smuggling activities of the Captain. Consequently there are few elements of an action film such as a car race near the end of the movie. Thus, I would classify Aar-Paar as a Romantic film with Action as a subgenre and consisting of underlying themes such as ‘Rich versus Poor’ and ‘Good versus Evil’. Moreover, these genres and themes can be portrayed through the archetypes, stereotypes and songs throughout the film. The three songs that I will analyze from Aar-Paar are “Babuji Dheere Chalna”, “Sun Sun Sun Sun Zaalima”, and “Ja Ja Ja Ja Bewafa”. In observing the various genres and themes within this film, there are many archetypes and stereotypes. Nikki’s father, Laaji, represents the archetype of a ‘despotic’ father as he bans Kaalu from meeting Nikki. However, he eventually gives-in at the end and accepts Kaalu. On the other hand, Kaalu represents the archetype of a ‘Noble’ hero. He has certain goals in the film such as winning the heroine’s heart and achieving...
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...The main types of movies Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. In fact, almost everyone has a certain type of movie they like to watch that will make them happy in some ways. However, there are three main categories of movies that people automatically think are drama, comedy, and action. The first category is drama. Drama films depend mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. In this type of movies, the audience is able to experience what other characters are feeling and even identify with someone. All films genres can include dramatic elements, such as comedies, action films, and horror movies, but typically films considered drama films focus mainly on the drama of the main issue. As a second type of movie that people automatically think of we have comedy. These kind of films are designed to create laughter from the audience. Comedies are light-hearted dramas, crafted to amuse, entertain, and provoke enjoyment. The comedy genre humorously exaggerates the situation, the language, action, and characters. The last category is action. Action films are a movie genre where action sequences, such as fighting, stunts, car chases or explosions, take precedence over elements like characterization or complex plotting. This type of film is designed for pure audience escapism with the action sequences at the core of the film. To conclude, we realized that...
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...Genre Theory is where certain movies follow a certain type of formula. It starts with the characters portrayed, the settings and iconography; the elements usually lead to the expectations of the audience to be a particular type of movie. For example, The Little Mermaid is an iconic Disney musical. Musical Genre movies are “Films that focus on songs as a major element, whether sung by characters in a realistic context such as a nightclub, or sung in lieu of dialogue to further the plot and express emotions (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014)”. Musicals aren’t just movies like The Little Mermaid; they can also be musical documentaries or concert films (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014). The Little Mermaid follows the story of a young beautiful mermaid princess, Ariel, who falls in love with a human prince, Eric. After the opening title sequence, the film starts out with King Triton, Ariel’s father, at a concert given by his seven daughters. They sing a musical number introducing themselves when they get to Ariel’s part; the girls notice the princess is absent. Ariel and her best friend, a tropical fish named Flounder, are treasure hunting in sunken ships. Once she gets the things she admires, she takes it to her hiding place and sings the iconic song, “Part of Your World”. As Ariel is finishing her song, she looks up and sees a shadow of a ship going over her kidding place. She decides to go to the surface to check it out, which is forbidden by her father, this is when she sees Prince Eric...
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...Director: M, Night Shyamalan Released date; June, 2013 Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky In his post apocalyptic sci-fi film is set 1,000 years after human leave earth, a quest is set for a young boy to locate a beacon to signal for help; save his injured father on an unknown planet and face its’ inhabitants. The genre films are usually easily recognizable as a certain genre. This is because they tend to use familiar story formulas charterers types and settings, for this film the genre is sci-fi. The sub genre would go into a more narrow definition this movie a post apocalyptic title would describe what to expect from this movie even before seeing it. Seeing this film gave me a sense of a deeper meaning to this film, take away the green screens and aliens you are left with the movie’s core. Which is overcoming your fears to save your love one and even yourself from danger? Watching after Earth for yourself will change your definition of what is fear and how to adapt, when you’re in danger. The plot of a movie and the story is different and also helpful to know the difference. The story is the sequence of events and the plot is the summary of the movie told to create a screenplay, then a script thereafter. The plot; after crash landing on a now unfamiliar earth due to 1,000 years of non-human inhabitants. Kitai has to be the savior and his father Cypher injured guides him to his first mission to signal for help or risk dying on an unforgiving earth. The storyline: film...
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...Genre Reflective Essay It is not so surprising that every time I heard the word “genre”, I always thought about the most common genres we see in movies, library sections, or on the back of some of my favorite books; not realizing there is so much more to it than that. Genre; class or category, form or a technique, classification or grouping with limitations; there is so much to say about genre, whether it is about a book, movie, or music. The word genre, a French word from 1770, especially used for “independent style” (genre). There are many important aspects of genre; it addresses the relationship between the author and the reader, the director and the viewer, the composer and the listener. It draws a path between them, the path that makes us visualize the pleasure we get, or the path that gives us ideas about what to expect. And even going deeper, there are sub-genres, super-genres, and indeed what is technique, style, mode, formula or thematic grouping to one may be treated as a genre by another (Bordwell 147). We make decisions based on genre, whether we realize it every time we make these decisions or not. I believe in some cases, we are made to believe in a certain way based on our past experiences. For example, listening to a classical music in the evening while it’s raining outside, or reading a novel on a Sunday morning; watching a black-and-white movie and assume it is likely to be a romantic movie, or it is likely to be an action movie if Jason Statham is the main...
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...Frequency RMSSTD Cluster Description 1 0.8 2248 0.124345 +action +good +plot characters effects movies pretty +movie real +year first +old +few +end films +character +feel +watch +cast +director 2 0.2 551 0.094437 +battle +history +man +stone alexander angelina anthony battles colin farrell historical hopkins hours jolie men oliver scenes stone troy +life Table 2. Cluster-Specific Means Cluster Rat_10scl (mean) Useful (mean) RevLen_Words (mean) 1 6.121 0.388 241.981 2 5.461 0.413 277.301 Table 3. Cluster-Specific Genre Distribution Cluster thriller romance action drama comedy animation Sum 1 11.65% 5.43% 40.39% 25.71% 15.97% 0.93% 100% 2 0.36% 0.36% 13.07% 86.21% 0% 0% 100% Description of the clusters: Cluster 1: This cluster has larger number of observations under it which is 80% of total reviews with a frequency, that is, number of reviews of 2248. Total number of reviews processed is 2799. Even though this cluster is larger, from the value of RMSSTD of 0.124 which is higher than that of Cluster 2, it shows that this cluster is more heterogeneous. That is, the reviews are more varied and inconsistent. Overall from the list of terms displayed under the ‘Descriptive Terms’, we see quite a different variety of terms. Terms like ‘plot’, ‘characters’, ‘cast’, ‘director’, ‘watch’, etc, shows that this cluster is more concerned with the type or quality of the movie dependent on the characters and plot. Even though we cannot definitively say what is the overall view of...
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...American phenomenon, and used primarily as a movie-based tactic. To define, product placement is the deliberate placement of branded products or services within media content. For example the scene where Will Smith drink Coca-Cola in film. As a result of global flow, and access to media content and technology, the practice of product placement has become media-neutral and spread across other cultures. Due to this circumstances, there is a need to develop an expanded understanding of how non-US consumers perceive such placements. Product placement like traditional forms of advertising, transmit and reflect the important symbolic meanings and values within a culture. To add in, consumer attitudes toward product placement may also vary depending on the fundamental cultural orientations and values of a particular society. In general, there are abundant cross-cultural comparisons of advertising and promotion but little is known regarding how consumers from different cultures perceive and process product placement in their mind. Other than that, there has also been very limited knowledge on how and to what extent the medium of placement affects perceptions of the tactic. The main purpose of this research is to examine: i. US and Korean college student consumers’ attitudes towards product placements in three different media (films, TV shows, and songs). ii. product placement acceptability based on media genre and product type. Based on the above...
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...3 Categorizing Alien The sf movie has a close relationship to the traditional horror movie (Sobchack 26). Therefore, hybrid movies that unite elements of both genres seem to displease many critics because of encountered difficulties to categorize the respective one (27). Adam Roberts’s idea of ‘we know what sf is when we see it’ does not help to detect a medium to only one genre in this case (2). Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is a hybrid movie and supports elements of both genres, namely, horror and sf. Blithely, mandatory requirements, according to Darko Suvin’s definition, help categorizing this movie to one or the other. Alien is set in space, more specifically on the spaceship called Nostromo, in which an extraterrestrial creature is born...
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...Thriller Research Michelle Cheng http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/thriller Movie genre: Thriller * Is a genre that revolves around anticipation and suspense * The aim for thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. * The protagonist in these films is set against a problem- an escape, a mission, or a mystery * No matter what sub-genre a thriller film falls into, it will ALWAYS emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. The tension with the main problem is built on throughout the film and leads to a highly stressful climax Examples of Thriller Films: * The Great Escape: A large group of POW’s plan an escape from a German camp in WW2 * The Silence of the Lambs: An FBI agent develops relationship with the notorious serial killer in order to fain his assistance in the hunt for another serial killer * North By Northwest: Mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies, an advertising agent travels cross-country trying to survive. Sub-Genres of Thriller: * Action: uses physical action to create suspense. (Die Hard, Kill Bill Vol,1, The Bourne Identity ) * Crime: incorporates the suspenseful aspects of a thriller with a crime plot. (Jagged Edge) * Film-Noir: stylistic type of crime-drama or thriller that was popular in 1940-1950. Is characterized by a black and white style with stark lighting effects. Main character is usually a cynical hero. (Sunset...
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