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Film genres: features, functions, evolution

This Interactive workshop aims at exploring the origin of genres, their functions in cinema and their evolution, with particular emphasis on the latest developments. We first ask why we need genres at all and examine the variety of classification criteria that can be used. Then we focus on the specific features of genre films, analysing their conventions and their narrative structures. We then explore how different agents (from producers to audiences, from critics to film scholars) have used and still use genres, and highlight their economic, sociocultural and communicative functions. Finally, by taking a historical perspective, we explore how genres have evolved in the course of time and how modern cinema extensively use genre mixing and hybridization, thus pointing to the future of this important but complex category of film analysis. Part of the www.cinemafocus.eu research materials.

This Interactive workshop aims at exploring the origin of genres, their functions in cinema and their evolution, with particular emphasis on the latest developments. We first ask why we need genres at all and examine the variety of classification criteria that can be used. Then we focus on the specific features of genre films, analysing their conventions and their narrative structures. We then explore how different agents (from producers to audiences, from critics to film scholars) have used and still use genres, and highlight their economic, sociocultural and communicative functions. Finally, by taking a historical perspective, we explore how genres have evolved in the course of time and how modern cinema extensively use genre mixing and hybridization, thus pointing to the future of this important but complex category of film analysis. Part of the www.cinemafocus.eu research materials.

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I generi cinematografici: caratteristiche, funzioni, evoluzione

Film genres: features, functions, evolution

cinemafocus.eu

United Artists (distributore), oltre, ovviamente, un

western.

western.

UN MOMENTO PER RIFLETTERE

STOP AND THINK

1. Quali sono i tuoi generi cinematografici 1. What are your favourite film genres?

preferiti?

2. Try to build a simple classification of film

2. Prova a costruire una semplice classificazione genres: start from broader categories (like

dei generi cinematografici: inizia da categorie più comedies or thrillers) and see if you can

ampie (come commedie o thriller) e vedi se puoi expand them into more specific subgenres. If

espanderle in sottogeneri più specifici. Se puoi, you can, compare your list with a friend's and

confronta la tua lista con quella di un amico e discuss the reasons for the similarities and

discuti le ragioni delle somiglianze e delle differences.

differenze.

3. Choose three or four movies that you know

3. Scegli tre o quattro film che conosci bene e vedi well and see in how many different ways they

in quanti modi diversi possono essere classificati could be classified (as we did with Stagecoach

(come abbiamo fatto con Ombre rosse qui sopra). above).

4. Guarda i video qui sotto e decidi a quale genere 4. Watch the videos below and decide which

potrebbe appartenere ogni film. Puoi spiegare i genre(s) each film could belong to. Can you

motivi delle tue scelte, ovvero che criteri hai explain the reasons for your choices, i.e. what

utilizzato?

criteria did you use?

1 2 3 4

(Nota/Note 5)

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