~1930's: monsters - Nosferatu/ Frankenstein (monster), wolves/ werewolves (animal) - (children)
Predictability (genre must evolve) - audience desensitised
~1940's: dracula
~1950's: Sci-Fi/ horror - UFO's
~1960's: 'Psycho' - Iconic
~1970's: Driller killer, Teas chainsaw massacre, Hitcher - slashers
~1980's: Iconic: sleep- Nightmare on elm street - franchise
-Halloween
-Friday 13th
~1990's/2000's: Teen horror/ Scream, I know what you did last summer, Cherry falls- target audience
^ Saw
Each ten years that go by, genres evolve to suit the audience and create unexpected scenarios and create irrational fear, making people feel scared, even in their own homes, so nowhere is safe.
Most iconic is Psycho as it made people realise (think) they're not safe, even in their own homes as well as Nightmare on elm street, making to scared to even sleep.
Monday 22 September 2014
Genre theorys
Fiske's theory: Fiske's Theory suggests that people naturally categorise events that
take place in their reality in reference to texts they have experienced
in the past. This means he is suggesting we all create a context for
what we are seeing through intertextual referencing. People tend to
believe that genre is based on real life, however, the human mind tends
to give real life events context and genre based on those created in
texts. This can apply to generally speaking, any genre, for example:
the exorcist (ghost films): when something seemingly super natural takes place in real life people may relate it to a text based on ghosts. such as, if an object might randomly fall off a shelf in a supposedly haunted location on a ghost walk, people will witness this in reference to things they have seen in the exorcist or other such films.
Crime drama/action: if a person became held up in a hostage situation with thieves attempting to hold them at Ransom or in exchange for their escape, this would be perceived in accordance with crime drama TV shows or films, and to make sense of the situation they would turn it into another text.
Horror drama 127 hours : the film 127 hours is based on a real life event in which a man became trapped under a rock for near enough a whole 5 days, before actually cutting off his own arm in order to escape. the fact that this was then made into a film shows just how influential media texts are on how we perceive situations - the events of the situation were so intense for the victim (aron Ralston) that they were described as "something out of a movie", and they were so unbelievable horrific that it was actually turned into a film.
David Buckingham says: 'Genre is not ....simply "given" by the culture: rather, it is in a constant process of negotiation and change.'
the exorcist (ghost films): when something seemingly super natural takes place in real life people may relate it to a text based on ghosts. such as, if an object might randomly fall off a shelf in a supposedly haunted location on a ghost walk, people will witness this in reference to things they have seen in the exorcist or other such films.
Crime drama/action: if a person became held up in a hostage situation with thieves attempting to hold them at Ransom or in exchange for their escape, this would be perceived in accordance with crime drama TV shows or films, and to make sense of the situation they would turn it into another text.
Horror drama 127 hours : the film 127 hours is based on a real life event in which a man became trapped under a rock for near enough a whole 5 days, before actually cutting off his own arm in order to escape. the fact that this was then made into a film shows just how influential media texts are on how we perceive situations - the events of the situation were so intense for the victim (aron Ralston) that they were described as "something out of a movie", and they were so unbelievable horrific that it was actually turned into a film.
David Buckingham says: 'Genre is not ....simply "given" by the culture: rather, it is in a constant process of negotiation and change.'
Friday 19 September 2014
Genre
In simple words, genre is a way of putting a movie into a list of words (e.g horror, comedy, romance etc.) In almost every movie you will find there is more than one genre listed.Genre gives out a message to an audience, letting them know what the movie is about, reassurance that there will be some sort of twist and has an affect on peoples everyday life, e.g We see somebody do something bad in a movie, we expect them to be punished and a hero always saves the day.
Genres tend to work in cycles over the years, they start, they become popular, they go out of fashion, they stop, they wait a while, then they restart the cycle again.
Genres tend to work in cycles over the years, they start, they become popular, they go out of fashion, they stop, they wait a while, then they restart the cycle again.
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