Film Genre, Genre Film

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This unit examines the development of film genre in the context of technological and industrial change in the making, delivery and consumption of audiovisual media. The unit considers changing artistic, commercial, ideological and social functions of genre in terms of the needs of film industries, filmmakers and audiences. Each year two genre case studies will be covered in depth, such as the action film, the art film, the coming-of-age film, film noir, the gangster film, horror, melodrama, the musical, science fiction, the thriller, or the western.