Exam. Bring readings and notes to class. See you at 9AM.
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Exam. Bring readings and notes to class. See you at 9AM.
When a corpus of a genre is established two things tend to happen: 1. A list of films is compiled that respond to a simple tautological definition of genre (ie. Western = film that takes place in the west, cowboys, etc) 2. Critics, theoreticians that stick to a cannon that has little do with the […]
Conclusions & appendix to Rick Altman鈥檚, Film / Genre. Please read the appendix first (pg 216-225) and then the conclusions (pg 207-215). Write down the definitions for semantic, syntactic and pragmatic approaches to film genre and bring your notes to class. You can find the readings in the ftp under the Semantic-syntactic folder.
Semana 7 (Septiembre 9) Segunda presentaci贸n de trabajos de investigaci贸n: Exploitation (Christian & Enrique) Semana 8 (Septiembre 16) Primer examen parcial Semana 10 (Septiembre 30) Tercera presentaci贸n de trabajos de investigaci贸n: Gangster (Alejandro, Ruben) Semana 11 (Octubre 7) Cuarta presentaci贸n de trabajos de investigaci贸n: Action: (Carlos Arturo & Aura) Semana 13 (Octubre 21) Segundo Parcial […]
Please read Janet Walker鈥檚, 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 鈥 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鈥檚 and 50鈥檚, the western is still central to the theoretical approaches to genre.
Please read: Robert Warshow麓s, Movie Chronicle: The Westerner (pg 654-667) Write a text in which you discuss the characteristics of 鈥渢he westerner鈥 described by Warshow and the traits you found in the movie we watched in class: Stagecoach. Also, please read: 鈥淭he western: or the American film par excellence鈥 and 鈥淭he evolution of the western鈥, […]
Chapter 3 from Rick Altman麓s, Film / Genre. – The Western (pg 34-38) Steve Neale麓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 […]