and genre to genre. The musical, for instance, like the concert film and the musical biopic, has a set of conventions that foreground music. Through all of its various guises, however, film music can be characterized by its expressive power to shape the meaning of the image and to connect...
In film studies genre is used to analyze and classify films according to their shared audiovisual and narrative conventions, ideological structures, identification processes, and industrial or commercial properties. A film genre is understood to be an intertextual, commodity-centered construct, its ...
In musicals the narrative halts for the production numbers, wherein characters break into song and dance; often the characters perform for the camera (rather than for an audience within the film) and are accompanied by off-screen music that seems suddenly to materialize from nowhere. Conventions ...
A traditional understanding of genre consist in thinking that somehow some cultural norms for genres has been invented and that these norms are repeated over and over again. The tradition thus emphasizes conventions that may sometimes be perceived as arbitrary. However, Richard Dawkins (1976) has in...
Film music and film genre This thesis explores the role that film genre plays in the construction of, predominantly, Hollywood movie scores. It begins with the simple assumption that each genre has its own set of musical conventions, its signature "paradigm", wit... M Brownrigg - 《Doctoral...
instalments before 'General's Ode' was used (Yu Siu-wah 2012: 69). 11For discussion of the other music found in Tsui Hark's OUATIC series, see Weng (2014) on how musical genre conventions —Chinese and Hollywood—intersect with cinematic tropes to signify elements of narrative and identity...
It’s a film that devolves into absurdist comedy but is wrapped in various genre filmmaking conventions, including body horror, while also being a gritty New York indie that is an empathetic look at identity, masks, and disabilities. At the heart of the film, holding writer/director Aaron ...
that different film genres have their own sets of musical conventions—conventions that make that romance film sound different from that horror movie—Narayanan and team set out to find quantitative evidence that elements of a film's soundtrack could be used to characterize the film's genre. ...
Genre – Comedy, Music Plot – Dewey Finn (Jack Black), an overly exuberant guitarist, is fired from his bar band and finds himself devoid of job. He poses as a substitute music teacher at an affluent private elementary school, exposing his kids to the hard rock gods he idolizes and emul...
re watching some kind of taut and compelling political drama here, with secrets within secrets to be uncovered when really we’re seeing the writer-director doing his absolute level best to win an Oscar by marrying biopic conventions with his own method for making everything play like a high-...