Thursday, October 24, 2019
The Genre Cycle Essays -- Film, Movies
Film scholars around the world agree that all genres of film are part of the ââ¬Å"genre cycleâ⬠. This cycle contains four different stages that a specific genre goes through. These stages are: primitive, classic, revisionist, and parody. Each stage that the genre goes through brings something different to that genreââ¬â¢s meaning and what the audience expects. I believe that looking at the horror genre will be the most beneficial since it has clearly gone through each stage. The first stage of the genre cycle is called the primitive stage. During this stage of the cycle, the genre of horror is very new. Filmmakers are trying to decide what makes a horror film a horror film, while audience are figuring out what they should expect every time they see this kind of film. For example, Todd Browningââ¬â¢s Dracula is the basic, stripped down blueprint for many monster-horror films today. It features the ââ¬Å"bad guyâ⬠accompanied by the ââ¬Å"good guyâ⬠. After several horrifying events, Van Helsing kills the vampire, Dracula, and good prevails, again. Thus, establishing that in horror films no matter how grue...
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