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
* Se non hai visto questi film o non li ricordi
abbastanza bene, guarda i video qui sotto (e, se
vuoi, guarda altri estratti degli stessi film su
YouTube). Quali elementi ti aiuterebbero ad
assegnarli tutti al "genere bellico"? Quali altri
elementi ti aiuterebbero a differenziare l'uno
dall'altro? (Puoi nuovamente prendere in
considerazione l'elenco delle convenzioni di
genere sopra citato).
Referimenti a
questi film >>
sul sito
su
Wikipedia su IMDb di
Roger
Ebert
Full metal
jacket
@ @ @
Salvate il
soldato Ryan
@ @ @
La sottile linea
rossa
@ @ @
Dunkirk @ @ @
* If you have not seen these films or do not
remember them well enough, watch the videos
below (and, if you like, watch other excerpts
from the same films on YouTube). What
elements would help you to assign all of them to
the "war genre"? What other elements would help
you to differentiate one from the other? (You
may consider the above mentioned list of genre
conventions).
References to
these films >>
in Wikipedia
in
IMDb
in Roger
Ebert's
site
Full metal
jacket
@ @ @
Saving Private
Ryan
@ @ @
The thin red
line
@ @ @
Dunkirk @ @ @
Italiano English
Full metal jacket (di/by Stanley Kubrick, USA 1987)
Italiano English
Salvate il soldato Ryan/Saving Private Ryan (di/by Steven Spielberg, USA 1998)
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