English 195  Film As Art   Summer 2009                  Michael Dembrow, Instructor

 

Questions – Ch. 13: Genre

 

 

1.         What are some of the ways in which the Western genre is defined by its landscape?  Examples?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.         What are the two major types of Hollywood musical?  Examples?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.         Discuss the central theoretical tension in genre study between repetition on the one hand and variation/innovation on the other.

 

 

 

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