Today I learned about the history of Science Fiction films and how they have developed throughout the years. This helped me understand how genres can change and be developed in order to entertain the audience at the time. Because audiences get bored of the same plots in films direcctors need to come up with different twists and different types of genres.
I learned how films are made to be current and to entertain current audiences, for example at the time of WW11, there were many war films made, another example of this is when there was a growing belief in alien life, there were alien horror films made to scare the audiences at that time.
We can tell what the genre type is because of semiotics, semiotics help us understand the type of genre, for example signs and signifiers help us know what genre the film is, the setting of a Western film denotes the genre as a Western bar is an iconic sign for a Western film.
Schatz and Wright-
Schatz and Wright tried to prove that in terms of generic evolution, films don't have hybrid genres, they just build on the same genre, only changing things to keep the films fresh. However this theory can be argued as there is evidence that there were hybrid genres even in the 1950's. This is called regenrification.
Regenrification- Evidnece that hybrid genres were being made even back in the 1950's, an example of a hybrid genre is The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Hi Immy... what links can you make between these ideas and the work we have been doing on Semiotics?
ReplyDeleteAt the moment you are mainly describing what you learned/did. You need to try to evaluate what you have learned - synthesise and ideas and make connections.
Mr. M.