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Yr 12 OCR Media Studies
Genre
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand genre theory
2. To be able to identify the aspects that definesthe genre of a film.
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Sort these films into groups(if you don’t know anything about them, you are allowed to
guess!)
Die Hard
Batman Begins
The Lion King
Wall-E
Iron Man Legally Blonde
Jurassic Park
The Godfather Blade
The Golden Compass
The Lord of the Rings
Casino Royale
Kick-Ass
Superman Returns
Titanic
Mama Mia!
Click
HellBoy
Pride and Prejudice
The Mummy
Kung-Fu Panda
Meet the Fockers
Hancock
Adulthood
Sex & The City
Indiana Jones
Hulk
The Happening
The Ring
Saw IV
Atonement
2 Fast 2 Furious
Step Up 2: The Streets
Babe
10,000 BC
No Country for Old Men
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What is genre?
• Genre just means type.
• All films and TV programmes can be split into different genres. As withrepresentations, genres draw on pre-existing patterns as ‘shorthand’ for theviewer. For example, Westerns being set in a desert town, with cowboys,pistols, ten-gallon hats and saloon bars).
• But sorting film and TV into genres is, as we’ve seen, problematic. Thereare no set standards for each genre; and there are as many genres as thereare ways of describing them.
• Genre is usually used in broad terms. For example, Action movies,Westerns, or Soaps.
• There are also sub-genres within each genre. For example, in the genre of ‘Action’, we also find ‘Adventure’ movies (like Indiana Jones) as well as‘martial arts’ action movies (like the Rush Hour movies – though these couldarguably come under the genre of ‘comedy’ and the sub-genre of ‘action-comedy’…)
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Sort these films into groups(if you don’t know anything about them, you are allowed to
guess!)
Die Hard
Batman Begins
The Lion King
Wall-E
Iron Man Legally Blonde
Jurassic Park
The Godfather Blade
The Golden Compass
The Lord of the Rings
Casino Royale
Kick-Ass
Superman Returns
Titanic
Mama Mia!
Click
HellBoy
Pride and Prejudice
The Mummy
Kung-Fu Panda
Meet the Fockers
Hancock
Adulthood
Sex & The City
Indiana Jones
Hulk
The Happening
The Ring
Saw IV
Atonement
2 Fast 2 Furious
Step Up 2: The Streets
Babe
10,000 BC
No Country for Old Men
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What defines a film’s genre?
• Characters• Mise-en-scene
• Narrative
• Music• Editing
Genre Conventions: The aspects youwould expect to see in a certain type of
film
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Generic Conventions
• Think about the key elements of genre. How
would you use each one to identify the film as a
‘teen’ movie?
CharactersMise-en-scene
Stories
Music
Editing
• What are the conventions of a ‘teen’ movie?
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