Wednesday 20 March 2013

genre theory

Rick Altman links genre and theories of language and communication. Genres classified as 'semantic' elements (music, character types, familiar objects e.g. guns, fangs) and 'syntactic' structures (structure, character relationships creates building blocks. Western, horror and musical genres operate these approaches together.

Media forms have become more cross-generic or hybrid or mashed.

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