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Genre Part 1
Mind map: Horror and western genres
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Genre Part 1
Horror
- icnography
- ghosts and demons
- monsters
- masked killers
- gothic settings
- graveyards
- rural locations
- sreaming victims
- weapons
- Setting
- 18th and 19th century
- American small-towns or suberbs, hide dark secrets
- places where young adults congegrate
- isolated rural conditions
- Narrative
- Gothic Horror Literature
- people getting killed
- slasher films
- dead return to life
- Zombie films
- threated by supernatural forces
- Ghost films
- diesease
- body horror
- rebel against humanity
- revenge of nature films
- Style
- low key lighting
- tracking shots, POV, handheld
- music and diegetic sound
- mise-en-sine
- location
- Characters
- mad scientists
- maniacal killers
- monsters
- doomed victims
- heroic servivors
- mediums, religous figures, mentors
- disbelieving figures
- Themes
- everyday reality hiding something sinister
- Can we play God without paying some ghastly consequence?
- is there a life beond that which we can see?
- how would society respond if faced with a sudden upheavel of natures laws?
- icnography
Western
- Iconography
- trucks and wagons
- Horses, horse-riding
- tribes
- desert, visually stunning
- cati & tumbleweeds
- small towns, wooden buildings
- cowboy hats, boots & side-holsters, spurs
- cattle, wild buffalo
- 19th century technology
- telegraph machienes & posts, cannons and gatling guns
- setting
- cavalry westerns, military base
- journey or quest- oriented
- 19th century time period
- death of wild west
- mexican revolution
- narrative
- lawmen, herocic sherif
- outlaw westerns
- confilct between native and later americans
- followe settelers fome east to west
- quest based
- ranch western
- Style
- emphasise setting and theme, tension
- technical inovations
- cross-cutting
- CU
- wider frame sizes
- icreasing speed-tension
- used by sergio leone
- music
- exaggeration & excitement
- operatic extremes
- crucial in action
- diegetic
- characters
- outlaws & gunslingers
- sherrifs, lawmen
- saloon girls
- newspaper men
- captins of industry
- Native Americans
- cavalry soldiers
- settelers from E
- farmers & ranchers
- Themes
- violence & killings acceptablle price to pay for law & order
- Can men of violence ever hope to be part of a wider civilisation
- land be proteced from explosions
- settelers ever hope to biuld a civilisation better than before
- Price of progess
- is it right to be displaces and threatened people to use violence to porect themselves
- Iconography