AMU2448 Film genres

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Identify the conventions associated with film genres;

2. 2

   Evaluate the differences between Western and non-Western works classified under a particular genre;

3. 3

   Interpret genre using concepts like intertextuality and hybridity, and how they are part of what constitute a genre;

4. 4

   Write a detailed research into a specific genre;

5. 5

   Explain the ways in that genres are socio-culturally and historically determined and often ambiguous and tend to encompass divergent, even contradictory;

6. 6

   Evaluate the ambiguous nature of genres in terms of their apparently contradiction; i.e. being bound by certain conventions while simultaneously transgressing them.