Genre: 6 stages of genre Experimental Classical Parody: self-reflectivity Deconstruction Postmodernism Hybridisation How to ‘break down’ a gerne: Plot Narrative structure Character Types and Behaviour Setting Film Techniques Emotional Effects Iconography Star Actors Music ‘The Breakfast Club’ – a birth of the ‘teen’ genre Continue reading Everything about GENRE
Your argument should consider: The main features of the genre How these generic features are then used in your chosen texts; you should pay particular attention to mise-en-scene, narrative and acting How genre informs your reading of the text(s) The ways in which your text(s) might ‘hybridize’ with other genres Genre is a French word meaning … Continue reading Essay notes about GENRE and hybrids: comedy, mocumentary, thriller
THEATRICAL CONVENTIONS AND PERFORMANCE STYLES Performance Styles The way in which the plot is conveyed in a performance, sometimes to a particular philosophy of performance, or to an historic period. Theatrical Conventions Things done on stage by the actors, that contribute to an overall performance style Theatrical convention Definition Related performance style Burle Comic banter … Continue reading Theatrcal conventions and performance styles
