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    Wrtg 1010-20 Using the Genre of a children’s story to articulate with monsters In Gordimers story “Once upon a time” uses the genre of a children’s story to articulate monsters in a suburban family by using the theme of a fairytale that clashes with the theme of a childrens story so he can use “monsters” in a suburban family. Gordimer uses phrases that kind of gives him the excuse to go in and articulate the monsters into the genre of a children’s story. Gordimer knew how to

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    The crime drama genre has persevered through numerous progressions since the times of 'Dickson of Dock Green' (1955-1976) in the UK alongside 'Dick Tracy' (1950-1952) in the USA. The natural progression inside crime genre saw them in the end showing police procedural's. This was a first for TV, the audience not just observed the crime and the apprehension of the criminal, yet out of the blue, the entire crime solving network was opened for the crowd to see. Crime scene investigation and lawful administration

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    principles of genre analysis. These principles include: Beaufort’s five domains of knowledge, discourse community attitudes and values, rhetorical and other textual features. The rhetorical and other textual features can be divided into sub-principles such as content, function, format and different rhetoric appeals. For genre analysis, the content rhetorical feature is used to reflect the textual organization of different components of said genre. For example, a research article genre is highly organized

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    A genre is a category, and in film it is a way to describe the best fit of the direction a movie will display. There are many subgenres within a genre that also help to give definition. Genres are used to support a system of grouping instead of disarray by leaving others to decipher it themselves. Scarface is a crime film that also has the sub-genre of gangster. Even though it does not dramatize a social statement on a need for change, Scarface fits into the crime/gangster genre because it distinctly

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    The first question asked in the readings and discussions that we went through in class is what exactly is the meaning of genre. To me personally, the word “genre is it describes either a novel, film, video game or music by certain generic ideas or “rules” of what defines that specific genre. Stories can be described through narrative forms, such as if the writing piece is either a short story, a novel or even a poem or narration. Also, stories can even be characterized by either similar themes or

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    Movie genres are used to categorize movies depending on the similarity of characteristics in the story elements from which the viewers can create an emotional reaction or social construction about the movies. Other than the storyline, the genre classification takes into account the characters, the setting, the style and the mood of the movie. They can also be distinguished from one another by their narrative structures, themes, and the setting used during the making of the movies. The movie classifications

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    Genre theory is used to study films and put them into a classification so that audiences know what type of film it is before they see it. Genres are categories based on the story of the film, sometimes the actors and actresses, or even the directors. All films fall under a genre or sub-genre category. Romantic Comedy is an example of a genre which is light-hearted, humorous story involving people in love, sometimes overlapping with subgenres such as screwball comedy teen comedy, or gross-out

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    can write is called a genre, they are identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that contain conventions (Dercksen, 2015), in other words, Film genre are the categories in which the film being taken into consideration fall into. In this paper, a range of visual narratives and how they communicate effectively to a specific audience will be analyzed. These three visual narratives are; the horror film genre, the Film Noir/ Gangster Genre as well as the genre Science Fiction. Horror

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    There are many different types of film and film genres. A film can fit into more than one genre, but there are some genres that are more general than others. Some examples of film genre are animated, science fiction, documentary, comedy, and historical fiction. Within each genre, there are also specific characteristics that help support themes and story lines within that genre. An animated movie is a drawing, painted, or digitally created film that uses stop-frame cinematography to simulate movement

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    Over many years, genre has become an important role in everyone’s life. Scholarly authors such as Winsor, Pare, Berkenkotter, and Huckin, have noticed this trend and how it is important for people to understand this concept in order to understand writing. Some of these trends are noticeable in social groups such as businesses, educational settings, and other discourse communities in which they all were simplified to a specific standard within their group. These genres will facilitate activities,

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