Genre is defined as a specific type of music, film, or writing. How is genre created? Is it through arbitrary critical or historical organization that society sets genre? The answer to ‘how is genre created’ lies in the audience. “Second, as the product of audience and studio interaction, a film genre gradually impresses itself upon the culture until it becomes a familiar, meaningful system that can be named as such” (Casper 274). Genre is conceived once an audience has been exposed to the same ‘type’ of film they are seeing several times. Every time an audience views a certain type of film, the characters and events soon become recognizable. This process is described as iconography. Family melodrama is a genre that uses relationship struggles …show more content…
According to Thomas Schatz, Hollywood was coming off a massive revenue boom with projects grossing over $1.5 billion. This was a huge financial success that primed Hollywood for the success that would come. Rebel Without a Cause is a movie directed by Nicholas Ray released in 1995. It’s release date puts it in this Post Classical Period. The movie revolves around it’s protagonist, Jim Stark, who is new in town struggling to fit in. Despite Jim having a romance and a best friend, the most important relationship is the one with his parents, specifically his father. A 1955 New York Times review written by Bosley Crowther describes the melodrama as violent, brutal, and disturbing. “Young people neglected by their parents or given no understanding and moral support by fathers and mothers who are themselves unable to achieve balance and security in their homes are the bristling heroes and heroines of this excessively graphic exercise” (Crowther). Family Melodrama of the post classical period in Hollywood Cinema …show more content…
And despite the fact he was an outsider looking in, he was never truly alienated because of his family and close friends. The Last Picture Show demonstrates this alienation through one of the characters. “As Bogdanovich seldom takes his story very far from Anarene, he sees The Last Picture Show entirely in terms of the maturation of Sonny, in the course of the emotional crises and confrontations that have become the staples of all sorts of American coming-of-age literature” (Canby). The two films both demonstrate characteristics of a melodrama film. The violence and dire situations are noticeable in each of the two films but The Last Picture Show’s portrayal of Sonny shows the adaptation of Family Melodrama to the modernist era of Hollywood. Sonny Crawford, played by Timothy Bottoms, and his friend Duane Jackson, played by Jeff Bridges, are two seniors in highschool. The movie follows Sonny and his friend’s actions to different events around them. As the story goes on, the amount of romances in the film increases, along with it, the drama. A fight between Sonny and Duane breaks out over a girl they both care about, Jacy. Prior to this, Sonny dumps his original girlfriend Charlene in favor of beginning an affair with Ruth, the wife of their highschool coach. Through the conflicts with his friends and relationships and the death of a beloved friend, Sonny develops
Rebel Without a Cause is an unconventional story with a conventional, classical approach to storytelling. The film follows the seven traits of Classical Hollywood Cinema and is adapted to the hybridization of film noir, which was primarily a style of B movies, and teen drama films, which was newly emerging in the 50s.
The genre of the film is how we know what kind of film it is. Genre is a French word which literally means type; it shows what category a film comes under. There are certain factors in a genre which will identify it. Things like settings, characters and themes can all be similar in one specific genre.
A simple movie about a boy not fitting into society? There is so much more. “Rebel Without A Cause” directed by Nicholas Ray has a far deeper meaning to the plot than what most people understand after first watching it. The key to understanding this meaning is by paying attention to each component of the film. While components such as sound further the movie, the plot would not nearly be as developed without the camera placement, along with the character placement; It gives a deep insight to the audience about a specific character’s inner feelings, usually hinting at who is in control of the situation at hand.
Hollywood film has always been an influential phenomenon within the people of the United States. Many films have started enormous trends within cultural and social movements as well as political ones. Examples of this can be seen from the genesis of Hollywood film. As films became more popular, and more developed, the ideas that were presented within film reflected the changes that were occurring within The United States. The role of film, thus became even more important because it was source of entertainment, but also a source of propaganda that would influence gender stereotypes and expectations. The ideas that films present are usually very reflective of the time in which they were made, making them benchmarks for what was to be accepted
Friedman, L., Desser, D., Kozloff, S., Nichimson, M., & Prince, S. (2014). An introduction to film genres. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company.
Creativity occurs within the context of society: this is unavoidable as even artists who view themselves as outside of the 'mainstream' are constructs of society: their social construction of reality is inevitably grounded in the discourse and belief structures of the society they inhabit and were formed by, however much they choose to struggle. Indeed, philosophers such as Foucault argue that it is impossible to escape one's own society due to the effects of language and meaning being so closely intertwined. Within the context of our own society post-modernist art, especially film making, seeks to undermine the dictates of broader society in relation to meta-narratives – yet to make movies that can be easily inserted into the market costs money. Here I discount mass-market pulp-fiction success such as 'Paranormal Activity' as these are not aiming to be an expression of pure art. Those movies that aim to have a story that challenges the 'norms', that undermines the capitalist/materialist meta-narrative of the major movie production houses therefore face a struggle that in some ways parallels the struggle that young artists themselves face. This struggle can, for young artists just as much as for any citizen, be a stressor that leads to drugs and death.
Genre, a term to describe and categorize films on how they are presented towards the audience. These categories range from Western films to Science Fiction films. However, in the past century, film makers have begun to incorporate various genres into one film, this transformation of film making is called "genre-breaking". In Wyatt Earp, the storyline itself provides great depth on how genre is portrayed in films. Throughout the film, scenes of violence sets the tone of the film. By doing so, the film associates itself with the genre of a "gangster and action...
The 1955 film, Rebel Without a Cause, follows the life of a teenager who is dissatisfied with his family situation and society at large, and so he chooses to rebel for no particular reason. The drama is full of desire, delinquency, and a hint of romance; it also explores the complex problems the youth of the 50’s harbored.
My aim with this piece of work is to show how archetypes and genre conventions are used in sitcom through the use of text and film form. For example, how a scene is effected depending on whether you choose to film it as a multi camera based studio sitcom, a duel camera on location sitcom or a single camera on location and how the writing can be used to subvert the preconceptions of the audience using these camera setups. To explore the possibilities of this piece I have filmed three scenes in the three different setups and plan to illustrate my points through these and several professional sitcoms.
A genre is a type or category of film (or other work of art) that can be easily identified by specific elements of its plot, setting, mise en scène, character types, or style. (Goodykoontz, 2014) The gangster film is a sub-genre of the broader genre of crime film. A genre main objective is to classify the depiction of entertainment. The genre of my movie is a gangster film. My movie I chose was Scarface. The main character, Tony, was a refugee from Cuba.Tony had a small family which was his mom and his little sister. Tony’s mom despised him and did not want him around his little sister. Tony had all the attributes of a soldier. Tony knew about guns and how to control a group of others that follow him. Tony killed high a ranking political leader which gained the eye of a drug dealer. The drug dealer wanted Tony became a drug dealer and Tony begin his reign with drugs. As Tony dealt drugs he became an drug abuser as well. Tony became the biggest drug lord which brought Tony a lot of enemies.
The Fast and Furious franchise has been going on since 2001. Since then there have been seven movies to come out. Fast and Furious 7 may be the last movie in this series. With the actor Paul Walker, Bryan in the movie dead, there may not be any other way to produce another film. With that said, I thought the movie was very good and well thought of when coming to filming the rest of movie without Paul Walker and digitally having his face put in. In some scenes near the end of the movie you can tell that something is off and seems a little weird when looking at Paul’s character but aside from that it was a brilliant job done by the
Movies can be introduced to the audience in different genres. The genre of a movie depends on the story or the script. Depending on the storyline there are many types of film genres like action, realistic, romance, thriller, etc. Actual movies are movies directed and produced using the information based on the real life experience. A true story movie can have different genres because the movies are based on the actual life experience and not everybody, has experienced the same. Another, the genre of film is comic book movies. Comic book movies or superhero film look much different today than when they did back in the beginning. During the beginning, superhero movies were mainly for the kids, and hardly anything to get excited over. But
The genre i have studied is musicals. A musical is a film which has musical performances from the actors to express their feelings. The films from this genre that i studied are 'Singin' In The Rain' (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952), 'Grease' (Randall Kleiser, 1978) and 'Hairspray'(Adam Shankman, 2007). I studied two characteristics of the musical genre (Breaking Into Song And Dance and The Grande Finale) that are shown in the films studied. The identifying characteristics of 'Breaking Into Song And Dance' and 'The Grande Finale" are always seen in musicals. These characteristics are expected to be in a musical by the audience and ultimately make a musical what we predict it to be, a film that expresses characters feelings through song while
Thrillers have been films that are known worldwide to get the heart pumping, the chills crawling up and down your body, and the sweat rolling down your head. But, what causes this? What makes a thriller a thriller? A thriller is defined as “a type of media (film/ novel etc.) that heavily stimulates the viewer's moods, giving them heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, anxiety and/or terror. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, fight and/or chase scenes are common elements. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists,
Movies are one of the innumerable varieties of media that are utilized to display information. They might be exercised for numerous purposes depending on their designated audience. Regardless of the genre, all films must employ some organizational structure. Specifically, when evaluating all genres under the topic of fiction, there are vital parts that must be incorporated in order for that particular story to be successful. Although it may appear that there are a great deal of components to composing a successful movie story, the core elements that must be utilized to produce a compelling and fascinating movie story are: characters, plot, theme, and a setting.