Seminar 2: Genre 21/10/14

In this seminar James talked about Genre. Genre is a way to categorize film according to visual style, setting, and structure. We discussed how Genre is a way of coding certain films, and even constricts certain films into boundaries. We also were told about the 6 usual ways a film comes about, these were 

• Maturation (coming of age/rites of passage)
• Redemption (transition of main character from bad to good)
• Punitive (main, ostensibly good character behaves badly and is punished)
• Testing (willpower versus temptation)
• Education (main character moves from negative to positive perception of the world
• Disillusionment (reverse of Education)