MIGRAIN: genre
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GENRE
GENRE FACTSHEETS
PART 1a:
Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts
1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important?
The factsheet gives the example of someone sitting behind a desk. On its own, this image is not genre specific. However, when you add high-key lighting, a mise en scene, and a screen behind the character, these visual elements combine to create an image the audience recognises as a news broadcast. This example shows how iconographies work together to help the audience identify the genre.
2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre?
3) What are the different ways films can be categorised according to Bordwell?
4) List three ways genre is used by audiences.
5) List three ways genre is used by institutions or producers.
PART 1b:
1) List five films the factsheet discusses with regards to the Superhero genre.
2) What examples are provided of how the Superhero genre has reflected the changing values, ideologies and world events of the last 70 years?
3) How can Schatz's theory of genre cycles be applied to the Superhero genre?
PART 2: genre analysis case study
GENERAL:
1) Why did you choose the text you are analysing?
2) To what genre did you initially assign the text?
3) What is your experience of this genre?
4) What subject matter and basic themes is the text concerned with?
5) How typical of the genre is this text in terms of content?
6) What expectations do you have about texts in this genre?
7) Have you found any formal generic labels for this particular text?
8) Which conventions of the genre do you recognize in the text?
9) To what extent does this text stretch the conventions of its genre?
10) Where and why does the text depart from the conventions of the genre?
11) Which conventions seem more like those of a different genre (and which genres)?
12) What familiar motifs or images are used?
MODE OF ADDRESS:
1) What sort of audience did you feel that the text was aimed at (and how typical was this of the genre)?
2) What assumptions seem to be made about your class, age, gender and ethnicity?
3) What interests does it assume you have?
RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER TEXTS:
1) What intertextual references are there in the text you are analysing (and to what other texts)? Intertextuality is when a media product references another media text of some kind.
2) In terms of genre, which other texts does the text you are analysing resemble most closely?
3) What key features are shared by these texts?
4) What major differences do you notice between them?
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