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COMM 4330 Film and Genres


This course investigates the cultural, social, political, economic, and institutional conditions generating national and international genre films. The course does not privilege certain genres, but selects significant films from a cross section of genres including science fiction, horror, musical, crime, comedy, western, biopic, drama and the numerous subgenres such as “coming of age” films that have historically evolved. From a theoretical perpective we analyze the thematic, narrative, aesthetic, and ideological genre dimensions and their expansive and mutable characteristics when translated within different cultural, national and global contexts. Central to genre analysis is the relationship between the insitutional production of genre forms and audience expectations and recognition required for economic stability of the industry and the maintenance, transformations and/or decline in genre forms. Spectator consumption and gratification is investigated through the representation of race, gender, class, and national identity. Prerequisite(s): COMM 2340 
Credits: 3.0