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Unit 1:Introducing Genre

• Genre is actually a French word for "Type" or "Category"
• It's a concept that allows and helps scholars to study films, film making and the audiences response for these films
• Genres are not fixed, they are used to help us understand films

Unit 2:Genre Classification

• Genres are not fixed, they are actually dynamic, the definition of any particular genres is Fluid
• Iconography can be both visual image and sound image
• Most genres offer a narrative of "Reassurance"
• Some characters are so"tightly" associated with the genre that they then become "Generic types"

Unit 3:Hollywood and Genre

• "Hollywood is a generic cinema, which is not quite the same as saying it is a cinema of genres" Richard Maltby, 1995
• Genre began to decline because genre theorist argued that "genres began as fairly loose groupings that gradually evolved towards a "mature" or "classic" period."
• "B" films and genres, like genre fiction, were seen as "low status" by critics and commentators

Unit 4:Audiences and Genres

• There are many pleasures that audiences get from film genres. These pleasures are the following:

1. Emotional Pleasures-Some genres are generically designed to make the audience feel emotional in different ways
2. Visceral Pleasures- This is how the film is style to have a physical effect on audiences
3. Intellectual Puzzles- This allows the audience to interact and allows them to try and unravel the mystery of "whodunnit"
4. Counter-Culture Attraction- Where the audience can unravel the genre from the conventions of the the films or in other words, the "Repertoire of Elements"

• There are hybrid films that mix the conventions of more than one or two genres together, therefore reinterpreting them.
• The strongest elements of genre is the emotional response that they are designed to get from the audience

Unit 5: Stars and Genres

• Theorist "Ellis" stated that "Stars hold a "promise" to audiences"
• Film theorist "Dyer" stated that Stars are seen as "Commodity", which is an important asset or element of making and selling a film
• The relationship between stars and genre or even generic elements are fluid