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Genre Theorists
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- 1David BuckinghamGenre is in a constant process of Negoation Change: Genre must respnd to socio-economic and cultural change.
- 2John Fiske (Genre)Genre as 'Convenience' for producers and audiences. Commercial success is underpinned by the conventions of genre in terms of what audiences expect
- 3John Fiske (Cultures)Different Cultures interpret texts in different ways and must be accounted for in production.
- 4John Fiske (Warning)Warned that we should always be aware that connotations are exactly and that and are not denotations/truths
- 5Robert StamThere are infinite genres. The idea Stam presents is that Genre no longer exists and we do not have to analyse text in terms of genre.
- 6JGenre is abstract and is becoming harder to identify
- 7HGenre breaks rules and commonly hybridizes
- 8John HartleyGenre is interpretted culturally e.g Coronation Street or Eastenders could only be understood in terms of conventions of UK Soap Operas. American Television dramas tend have slightly different set of conventions to British ones.
- 9DGenre is too restricting and presents audiences and producers with a creative 'straightjacket'
- 10Steve Neale (Theory)Thoery of Repetition and Differnece. All genres contains instance of repetition, difference is essential to the economy of the genre.
- 11Steve Neale (Genre Definition)Neale states that the film and its genre is defined by two things: How it conforms to a genre conventions and how it differs to make itself different and not just a copy.
- 12Rick Altman (Set)Genre offers the audience with a 'set of pleasures'
Emotional Pleasures
Visceral Pleasures
Intellectual Pleasures - 13Rick Altman (Define)Semantic/Syntactic Approach we can consider genre in to ways. The semantics which is the media language. e.g Mise En Scene. The Syntactic which looks at the narrative structure.
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