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Genre arouses the expectations of an audience. How and why does it do this? Refer to at least 3 texts in your answer; use Peeping Tom as one of them.
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Lesley Lock Media Essay Genre arouses the expectations of an audience. How and why does it do this? Refer to at least 3 texts in your answer; use Peeping Tom as one of them. Film genres are various forms or identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that are recurring and have tend to have similar patterns, filmic techniques or conventions - that include one or more of the following: settings (and props), content and subject matter, themes, period, plot, central narrative events, motifs, styles, structures, situations, recurring icons (e.g., six-guns and ten-gallon hats in Westerns), characterizations, and stars. Some film's nowadays are even made of more than one genre and therefore has a hybrid genre. Film genre offers a way for the television and film industries to control the tension between similarity and difference inherent in the production of texts. Genres are made, not born. Arguably they serve the institution -...
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