Please read Janet Walker’s, Westerns: Films Through History. -Introduction: Westerns Through History (pg 1-27), and write a summary (no less than 700 words) in which you outline the most important aspects of the reading. (In folder “Semana 7”)
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Please read Janet Walker’s, Westerns: Films Through History. -Introduction: Westerns Through History (pg 1-27), and write a summary (no less than 700 words) in which you outline the most important aspects of the reading. (In folder “Semana 7”)
** Notes on Robert Warshow’s – Movie Chronicle : The Westerner The title indicates that Warshow is more concerned about the westerner – the western hero-, than the genre itself. However, the western is pretty much defined by its hero and the hero, particularly in the western and in action movies, is the driving force […]
Westerns have occupied a very important place in the discussion on genre theory. Despite the fact that westerns are not as popular as they used to be in the 40’s and 50’s, the western is still central to the theoretical approaches to genre.
Please read: Robert Warshow´s, Movie Chronicle: The Westerner (pg 654-667) Write a text in which you discuss the characteristics of “the westerner” described by Warshow and the traits you found in the movie we watched in class: Stagecoach. Also, please read: “The western: or the American film par excellence” and “The evolution of the western”, […]
Chapter 3 from Rick Altman´s, Film / Genre. – The Western (pg 34-38) Steve Neale´s, Genre and Hollywood: Westerns (pg 133-142) For each text, please write a set of three questions, with the corresponding answers. Readings can be found here: ftp://ftp.icesi.edu.co/mlcuellar/, in the subfolder called “semama 4”
According to Dyer there are three kinds of musicals: 1. Those that keep the narrative and the musical numbers clearly separated: (mostly where the numbers appear to be part of a show like Cabaret) 2. Those that retain the division between narrative as problems and musical numbers as escape (where one more or less can […]
1. As a marketing device – to draw audiences to the theater – if one person enjoyed “Spider Man” then they will most likely want to see “Hulk“, therefore investors are more keen to invest…. 2. Reference tool – people understand (implicitly) more or less what is at stake with a particular genre because they […]
What elements can we refer to when we need to differentiate between genres? 1. Subjects and themes 2. Presentation (in the musical for example – musical = signing + dancing) 3. Emotional effect (horror = fear, comedy = laughter) 4. Genre conventions of narrative and style 5. Plot elements 6. Thematic meanings (example: road movies […]
1. Lacks a scientific precision in its definition 2. They developed in an informal way 3. Everyone (critics, producers, audiences, actors) have contributed to the formation of genres and to the shared sense that some films may relate to others 4. Genres change over time (directors and actors may add a twist to their work […]
Read: Richard Dyer’s essay in Steven Cohan’s, Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader: – Richard Dyer, Entertainment and Utopia. (pg 17-30) Abstract from the second chapter of Steve Neale’s, Genre and Hollywood: Musicals (pg. 104-112) Watch Lars Von Trier’s, Dancer in the Dark, 2000 1. Write a small piece on the movie we watched in class […]