Essay plan 1
Recent developments in genre have included the emergence of parody pastiche and hybrid forms. Show how such developments have influenced the nature of media text. Jan 06 B
In introduction - difine genre
Genre is a form of categorising different media text, using codes and conventions which a expected of a specific audience. Although audiences expect similarities in a specific genre, Richard Maltby 1955 states that "genres are flexible" and that they can "change and adapt" through out timeto reflect the zeitgeist. They can change by becoming a hybrid, or use different elements of parody and pastiche and they must change so the audience get a new viceral pleasure i.e. laughing in a slasher film.
Text to mention: post modern text which shows how slasher films have changed.
*Scary Movie because it is a hybrid which is a parody/spoof as it uses many other slasher text and mocks them to make the audience laugh.
*Scream because it mentions its self as a slasher film it is aware of it self being a slasher film
it also mention other slasher films. It is also a pastiche because it uses the stypical slasher narative template.
*The grand daddy of slasher films which is Alfred Hitchcocks famous slasherfilm Pyscho.
*other text such as halloweenand texas chainsaw massacre.
Codes and convetions seen in slasher films:
*teenagers (if they have sex they die) ideology promoted to films.
*Killer with with a mask
*final girl Carol Clovers theory.
*isolated location
*screams
Say how codes and conventions have changed:
*Final girl in scream has sex but doesn't die
*In friday 13th the killer deosn't have a mask and is a woman
*when slasher films began final girl wasn't resourceful but now she is seen fighting back.
Genre thoery
talks about a pattern of different repetoire of elements, it also talks about how genres are not fixed although they have identifiable similarities. Genres are dynamic.
Audience and their expectations
Audience are desensitized to watching blood a guts the films made nowadays have to be more grafic. Cultivation theory so films can be enjoyable.
In introduction - difine genre
Genre is a form of categorising different media text, using codes and conventions which a expected of a specific audience. Although audiences expect similarities in a specific genre, Richard Maltby 1955 states that "genres are flexible" and that they can "change and adapt" through out timeto reflect the zeitgeist. They can change by becoming a hybrid, or use different elements of parody and pastiche and they must change so the audience get a new viceral pleasure i.e. laughing in a slasher film.
Text to mention: post modern text which shows how slasher films have changed.
*Scary Movie because it is a hybrid which is a parody/spoof as it uses many other slasher text and mocks them to make the audience laugh.
*Scream because it mentions its self as a slasher film it is aware of it self being a slasher film
it also mention other slasher films. It is also a pastiche because it uses the stypical slasher narative template.
*The grand daddy of slasher films which is Alfred Hitchcocks famous slasherfilm Pyscho.
*other text such as halloweenand texas chainsaw massacre.
Codes and convetions seen in slasher films:
*teenagers (if they have sex they die) ideology promoted to films.
*Killer with with a mask
*final girl Carol Clovers theory.
*isolated location
*screams
Say how codes and conventions have changed:
*Final girl in scream has sex but doesn't die
*In friday 13th the killer deosn't have a mask and is a woman
*when slasher films began final girl wasn't resourceful but now she is seen fighting back.
Genre thoery
talks about a pattern of different repetoire of elements, it also talks about how genres are not fixed although they have identifiable similarities. Genres are dynamic.
Audience and their expectations
Audience are desensitized to watching blood a guts the films made nowadays have to be more grafic. Cultivation theory so films can be enjoyable.
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