Mariam Raja - Media Research

Friday, May 05, 2006

june 06b

Recent developement in genre have included the emergance of parody, pastiche and hybrid forms. Show how such developments have influenced the nature of the media text.


Introduction: Explain what is genre and explain the "cycle" of genre. Explaining what is the peak of a genre, to the decline of a genre. Introduce slassher genre as your case study.

Paragraph 1- Talk about pastishe and parodies, such as scream and how this is a more postmodern text, that understands the conventions and plays on them. This allow the text to become more intellectual, and offer intellectual pleasures to the audience.

Paragraph 2- Parody however takes a more minic attitude to genre, it exagrates all the convention to cause a element of comedy. Here we see the presence of a hybrid genre , a mix of comedy and slassher and this is reinvigrating both genre.

Paragraph 3- It can also be said remakes show how the genre is going into decline, show a lack of originality and could be said to be " boring" and over done with an audience. However on the other hand you can say producers are just making film they know will be successful and be enjoyed, and feed audience expectation.

Conclusion: Here summaries, all 3 point and come to a conclusion of what parody and pastiche and remake show. suggest it prehaps shows decline of a genre...on the other hand it could just be making a genre more interesting with element of other genres and feeding into audience expectation.

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