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The concept of film genre.  

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The concept of film genre. Using Dyers and Schatz's theories, analyse four films that you know to demonstrate how they represent the four categories. Dyers theory of Social tension and inadequacy against the utopian feeling or fantasy and its coding in entertainment films are used to help explain complicated narrative structure of films, I am therefore going to relate two films from each category and explain the importance and reasoning behind them. Both of the social tension and inadequacy films that I have chosen are films that are English, they have both had a huge impact of the film world and relates everyday life to the audience. Billy Elliot is the first film I am going to evaluate. The scarcity in this film is unreal; the whole film is based in poverty and in a hard economic time. Billy and his family live in a small terraced house in the north,...

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