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
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Note/Notes
(1) Feuer J. 1993. The Hollywood musical (2nd edn.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
Citato in/Quoted in Altman R. 1999. Film/Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, London, p. 22.
(2) Bazin, A. 1995. "Évolution du western", in Qu’est-ce que le cinéma? Cerf, Paris, pp. 229–239.
Citato in/Quoted in Moine R. 2008. Cinema genre, Blackwell, Oxford, p. 153.
(3) Moine, op. cit., p. 157-158.
(4) Il tema di questo e del successivo paragrafo segue/The theme of this and the following
paragraph follows Altman, op. cit., pp. 20 e/and 53.
(5) Moine, op. cit., pp. 143-144.
(6) Da/from www.wikipedia.org
(7) Moine, op. cit., pp. 167-168.
(8) Braudy L. 1977. The World in a Frame: What We See in Films, Anchor Doubleday, Garden
City, NY, p. 179. Citato in/Quoted in Grant H.K. 2007. Film Genre. From iconography to
ideology, Wallflower Press, London nd New York, p. 49.
(9) Altman, op. cit., pp. 128 e/and 141.
(10) Moine, op. cit., pp. 157-158.
(11) Grant, B. K. (Ed.) 1995. Film Genre Reader II, University of Texas, Austin Press, p. XV.
Citato in/Quoted in Moine R. 2008. Cinema genre, Blackwell, Oxford, p. 118.
(12) Moine, op. cit., pp. 147-148.
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* Video (Loescher Editore)
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* Video da YouTube:
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Want to know more?
* Chandler D. 1997. An Introduction to
Genre Theory
* From the PremiumBeat website:
Aldredge J. 2020. A Guide to the Basic
Film Genres (and How to Use Them)
* From the filmsite.org website:
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* From the MILNE LIbrary website:
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Determined? by John Reich
* From the Student Resources of the New
York Film Academy:
- Ultimate list of film sub-genres
* From the IMDB website:
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themes, movie and TV charts, top rated
English movies by genre, and more
* From the tvtropes.org website:
- an impressive list of genres, each
analysed in detail
* From the Box Office Mojo website, a
very detailed list of genres with their
relevant box office success: Genre Index
* Videos from YouTube:
- Genres of films (with examples) by
Jess Farey
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