1. Classic Hollywood Genres
Genre and Ideology
Classic Hollywood Genres

2. Genre
Regulated Difference =
Regulated +
Difference

3. Genre Conventions Revision of conventions Plots Themes Style
Iconography
Revision of conventions

4. Genre Social Functions: Ritual ceremony
Exploration of ambivalent social values→ → channel into approved attitudes
Response to broad social trends
Reinforce contemporary ideologies

5. Classical Hollywood Genres
The Western
The Horror Film
The Musical

6. Define a Genre Select a genre, not too broadly defined:
What are its defining characteristics?
What value systems are generally associated with it?
What constitutes its iconography?
What (if anything) could not be found in a movie in this genre?
What is essential to this genre?