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How do the first five minutes of “Shane” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” establish genre and narrative?
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How do the first five minutes of "Shane" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" establish genre and narrative? A genre is a specific form of media commodity. It has characteristic qualities that are familiar to audiences because the same method is applied repeatedly. A genre functions like a language and is used by film producers to ensure an audience can identify and predict what is likely to happen. Genres can offer comforting reassurance in an uncomfortable situation; the conventions are recognisable usually through iconography, familiar narrative, mise-en-scene, actors and style of representation. These sets of conventions are constantly renegotiated between industry and audience. Genre can also be a way of working through important myths and fear by the use of repetition, variation and resolution and can be thought of as "tidying up" the mess of life. Narrative involves a basic structure (beginning, middle and end) and a basic decision on the genre of story being...
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