Genre

She woke not knowing if it was day or night, summer or autumn, she only knew that the sun was gone. The dungeon was filled with groans of pain and the gentle sobs of women who had accepted their fate. They had been trialled and tested as witches. They were going to be hanged. Silvia held the hand of the girl hunched next to her who, later on, was going to be hanged today. The girl couldn’t have been much older than 16 and by the rope burns and bruises on her face Silvia knew her confession came…

Paranormal television is a genre of reality television. Its scope comprises purportedly factual investigations of paranormal phenomena, rather than fictional representations found in such shows and movies as Scooby-Doo, Ghostbusters, and Rentaghost. In the print media reports of supernatural occurrences have always been common. When TV became more and more popular stations needed to find way of differentiating themselves. Starting in the 1960’s TV stations began to feature ghost stories. This…

Types of Adam Sandler Movies Adam Sandler makes three different types of movies. They fall into three different categories: paydays, pineapples, and movies where he’s trying. Paydays are movies where he did it for the money. Pineapple are paydays that didn’t make any money. The movies where he is trying means Adam did it for the audience and not to make money. All these types of movie will be discussed in the following. The Payday movies have Sandler’s name on it so that it will sell more…

The essay entitled “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk addresses composition students as the intended audience. The author immediately grabs the reader’s attention by telling a joke regarding country music lyrics. The joke was not only entertaining, but helps students understand how genres might apply to their writing. Dirk’s motivation for this essay is to expand a student’s definition of genre and improve awareness of how genres function. The author, who is also a teacher, admits writing to…

Paper 1 Describe the classical Hollywood narrative structure. Use examples from the film Shadow of a Doubt to illustrate the structure The Narrative structure of cinema has been ductile through history. Today we have a very wide spectrum of different plotlines and structures that directors and writers get to choose from; however, the classical Hollywood narrative structure stuck to one consistent narrative structure that follows a linear timeline through 3 basic steps: equilibrium, disruption,…

They share the same genre values with the filmmakers. For instance, look at John Carpenter’s Halloween. By the time this film came out audiences knew what to expect when seeing this. This movie would surly have blood, suspenseful moments, and an emotional undertow; it did not disappoint. By the time this movie was released, in comparison to Dracula¸ it was often expected that the ending leave you wondering whether or not the “bad guy” was actually dead. In particular, at the end of Halloween, Dr…

The concept of myth influences many cowboy narratives. Especially Hollywood movies are full of mythical elements of the American West. Although myths will play a minor role in the analysis of the cowboy biographies, it is necessary to mention some theories of myth and to elaborate on its definition. Historian Richard Slotkin gives an excellent characterization of myth in his book Gunfighter Nation, which will be used for further elaboration. Myths are stories drawn from a society’s history that…

Southern Gothic Essay The American Literature is shaped in parts by how the authors use Southern Gothic Genre to explore social issues and reveal the cultural of the South. The traits of this genre are, Macabre, Social Class, and Outsiders. The stories we read as a class are “ A Rose For Emily” ( William Faulkner). “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” ( Flannery O'Connor) . ¨ The Possibility Of Evil¨ ( Shirley Jackson).The traits of the southern gothic clearly portrayed to represent the moral…

The horror film genre is big in the entertainment industry. It is an attraction to see films where viewers know that it will bring fear. This fear is a type of adrenaline rush from skydiving. There is an aesthetic distance that allows the viewers to experience his/her own fear as an object of enjoyment. This type of experience is a frame where viewers know there is a limit and they will not get physically hurt. This paper will explore the emotion of fear when watching horror films. The paper…

Due to the fact that Halloween was around the corner, I decided it’d be a wise idea to dip my toes into the young-adult horror genre. And, although this may not have been the greatest, Nightfall wasn’t a completely disappointing start. Firstly, the initial premise caught my attention straight away, I found it hard to envisage a world in which the day/night cycle is more than 24 hours, a world where people had to abandon their homes, and move across an ocean just due to it being nighttime. I…