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Some people suggest that the notion of genre in film stops creativity and innovation. How far is this true in the two films you have studied?
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Some people suggest that the notion of genre in film stops creativity and innovation. How far is this true in the two films you have studied? The suggestion that the notion of genre in film stops creativity and intervention is very interesting, I have studied two films, Calamity Jane and Dancer in the Dark. Calamity Jane is typically found in a set genre of film, a musical or western/musical. It conforms to many different concepts of genre, whether it is Shatz's Genres of order theory, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson's Hollywood theory, but relates mostly to Dyers' Utopian theory. Whereas Dancer in the Dark differs immensely, this film is influenced by Dogma 95 which was created not to be placed in a set genre, this is rather contradictory as it has started up a new genre of its own. Dancer in the Dark bases its film into documentary style film, thus...
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