2. GENRE INVESTIGATION: WHAT IS GENRE?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or
literature, characterized by similarities in
form, style, or subject matter. Fictional films are
usually categorized according to their
setting, theme topic, mood or format.
3. GENRE THEORISTS
David Chandler; “Conventional definitions of genres
tend to be based on the notion that they constitute
particular conventions of content (such as themes
and settings)”.
Steve Neal; “Genres are instances of repetition and
differences, difference is absolutely necessary to
the economy of genre”.
David Buckingham; “Genre is not simply given by
the culture, rather: it is in a constant process of
negotiation and change”.
4. GENRE THEORISTS LINKED TO HORROR
Barbara Creed; Creed discusses the representation
of the woman as the monster rather than as victim
to a male monster. She links the monstrous
feminine in patriarchal society.
Freud; Freud identifies the uncanny the notion of
the double, cyborg, twin, doppelganger, multiplied
object, ghost, spirit, and involuntary repetition of an
act.
