Movie inspirations
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Filters
Verisimilitude-The appearance of being true or real.
Amplify-Enlarge upon or add detail to (a story or statement).
Reinforced–
sub-genres-a subdivision of a genre of literature, music, film, etc.
hybrid genres–
ghost town
Forms of political protests:
– Attempts to change laws or legislation
– Organised political movements
– Public protests
– Petitions
– Marches
- Direct resistance against society and government can lead to conflict and backlash so the use and expression of meaning in video and lyrical videos can be used as a more subtle form of rebellion.
- BBC’s quotation and ideas on ghost town: “Released on 20 June 1981 against a backdrop of rising unemployment, its blend of melancholy, unease and menace took on an entirely new meaning when Britain’s streets erupted into rioting almost three weeks later – the day before Ghost Town reached number one in the charts.”
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
: Italian philosopher writing in the 1930s
Key Terms:
● Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values
When writing in the 1930s Gramsci researched why so many people followed and believed in fascist Germany.
It became the idea about hegemony, where more powerful people would change peoples views and imbedded their own political views deep into their culture as the easiest way to make someone believe in such extreme views is to access their emotional and mental state and to get them to truly believe in what they are told, which is done through this hegemony. —–>
- Cultural hegemony functions by framing the ideologies of the dominant social group as the only legitimate
ideology
- The ideologies of the dominant group are expressed and maintained through its economic, political, moral,
and social institutions (like the education system and the media). - As a result, oppressed groups believe that the social and economic conditions of society are natural and
inevitable, rather than created by the dominant group.
Paul Gilroy + GHOST TOWN QUOTES AND NOTES
Post-colonial Melancholia: Racial representations were “fixed in a matrix between the imagery of squalor and that of sordid sexuality” Gilroy argued that this was gated the black community out by saying they are a “other” race in the majority white Britain.
Racial Otherness: Gilroy explored the idea of racial otherness being underlying in print media during the 1970s and 1980s, he mainly focused on how the idea of black males regularly was set to be a criminal one. Gilroy’s main focus and research was in his study of black representation in the UK. The study was called “There Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack” where he focused on how newspapers were lurid and racist towards black people.
Quotes:
- “It was clear that something was very, very, wrong,” the song’s writer, Jerry Dammers
- “I saw it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of family life. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, that’s what Ghost Town is about.“
- “No job to be found in this country,” one voice cries out. “The people getting angry,” booms another, ominously.
key words – steve neale
Steve Neale – Steve Neale states that genres all contain instances of repetition and difference, difference is essential to the to the economy of the genre. Neale states that the film and it’s genre is defined by two things: How much is conforms to its genre’s individual conventions and stereotypes.
predictable expectations – something that happens that you could guess
reinforced – strengthen or support (an object or substance), especially with additional material.
amplify – enlarge upon or add detail to (a story or statement).
repertoire of elements – Repertoire of elements is essentially features of a film that are repeated within a genre. … The audience expect to see them when watching films and they can be key in helping the audience to grasp the genre of a film.
corpus – body
verisimilitude– the appearance of being true or real.
realism – ealism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations.
construction of reality – part of those observations and experiences come to us preconstructed by the media, with attitudes, interpretations, and conclusions already built in, then the media, rather than we ourselves, are constructing our reality.
historically specific – something from the past that is recognisable.
sub-genres – a subdivision of a genre of literature, music, film, etc.
hybrid genres – A hybrid genre is a genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. Hybrid genres are not new but a longstanding element in the fictional process
Genre
A style, type or category of entertainment. Often predictable.
Genre rests around a relationship between similarities and differences.
Genres are very important for institutions, audiences and industries.
“Producers are saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures” – this suggests that limitations are set out when attempting to create a film or moving image that will sell well, and there are difficulties in keeping similar ideas to fit the target audience, but making it slightly different so it isn’t boring or repetitive.
Steve Neale: “Genre is a repetition of differences and similarities to create different stories”
He argues that definitions and formations of genres are developed by media organisations. Furthermore it is seen that genres can change massively overtime, for example in 2002 Spider-man was released, which showed characters with super-human abilities to defeat villains with an opposing power, the films were seen to be comic like and colourful, whereas films from the exact same company like x-men were darker and more rough. But fast forward 20 years, action films are seen to have a lot more aspects of comedy and adventure in them to intrigue the viewers and keep the genre fresh and interesting.
This goes with Neales idea that genre keeps changing as society and humanity changes as well, film genre’s represent what is going on in the current moment in history, that could be opinions, events, politics, anything.
Genre
The genre may be considered as a practical device for helping any mass medium to produce consistently and efficiently and to relate its production to the expectations of its customers. Since it is also a practical device for enabling individual media users to plan their choices, it can be considered as a mechanism for ordering the relations between the two main parties to mass communication.Dennis McQuail 1987, p. 200
Ed Buscombe notes that the ‘kind’ or ‘type’ of film is usually recognised “and largely determined by the nature of its conventions” (1986 p. 15). In other words, the textual nature of the media production. To understand the way in which textual analysis is used to define the genre of a media product, look at any extract from any film.
A key theoretical area that underpins Media Language is the study of GENRE. Genre is a way of thinking about media production (INSTITUTIONS) and media reception (AUDIENCES). Overall, genre study helps students to think about how media texts are classified, organised and understood, essentially around SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCE. In that media texts hold similar patterns, codes and conventions that are both PREDICTABLE and EXPECTED, but are also INNOVATIVE and UNEXPECTED.
Genres are really important for institutions and audiences.
. . . saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and
clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures . . .Scorsese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)
Genre
a style or category of art, music, or literature.
The genre may be considered as a practical device for helping any mass medium to produce consistently and efficiently and to relate its production to the expectations of its customers. Since it is also a practical device for enabling individual media users to plan their choices, it can be considered as a mechanism for ordering the relations between the two main parties to mass communication.
Dennis McQuail 1987, p. 200
Genre rests around a relationship surrounding similarities and differences. Genre’s are really important for institutions and audiences.
. . . saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and
Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)
clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures . . .
Institutions can become genres in themselves.
| Steve Neale | Neale believes that films of a type (genre, like romance or horror) should include features that are similar, so the audience know it is a horror film or romance, but also include features that are different, to keep an audience interested. This is his theory of repetition and difference. |
| predictable expectations | expectations that others have too that are set before and also throughout reading a book, watching a film or listening to a song. |
| reinforced | |
| amplify | |
| repertoire of elements | the repetition of components that make up the ‘body’ of similar texts – corpus. |
| corpus | body of similar texts. |
| verisimilitude | |
| realism | |
| construction of reality | |
| historically specific | |
| sub-genres | |
| hybrid genres | |
| different | |
| familiar |
genre
a style or category of art, music, or literature.
- Genre rests around a relationship between similarities and differences
- Genres are important for raising expectations from a small snippet
- Genres are important for institutions and audiences
“saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures“
Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)
- many movies the same as made by same people (Disney, Warner bro, Universal etc.)
08/02/22
- predictable expectations– always behaving or occurring in the way expected.
- reinforced-strengthen (an existing feeling, idea, or habit)
- amplify -enlarge upon or add detail to
- repertoire of elements– features of a film that are repeated within a genre
- corpus– a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject
- verisimilitude-the appearance of being true or real
- realism– the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life
- construction of reality– a phenomenon that we know and is independent, that is, does not depend on the existence of a particular individual
- historically specific– Historical people, situations, or things existed in the past and are considered to be a part of history
- sub-genres– genre that is part of a larger genre
- hybrid genres– they share the conventions of more than one genre.
Genre
A genre is a type/category of art, media or literature. It comes from the French word meaning ‘kind’ or ‘sort’. Genre rests around a relationship between similarities and differences. Genres are very important to institutions and audiences.
“saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and
clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures” – Martin Scorcese, a personal journey through American cinema (1995)
Genres are the same, but different at the same time.
genre
genre rests around a relationship between similarities and differences
What is Genre:
– A style or category of art, music, or literature.
It helps identify how media texts are classified, organised and understood, essentially around SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCE. Media texts hold similar patterns, codes and conventions that are both PREDICTABLE and EXPECTED, but are also INNOVATIVE (different) and UNEXPECTED.
Genre is a way of thinking about media production (INSTITUTIONS) and media reception (AUDIENCES).
. . . saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and
clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures . . .Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)
Genre is important for institutions and audiences as they become recognisable by their own styles.
Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)
. . . saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and
clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures . . .Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)