Revision - Genre #4

• films that are difficult to catergorize are usuaully less successful
• Hybrid - more than one genre
• there are multi-generic genres and post-modern and bricolage also
• Nick Lacey's schema of genre is a way of recognising key elements that help to determine a genre
• Mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, character roles and editing all contribute to genre
• audiences have expectations - producers use it as a blue-print; distributors can find their audience
• John Truby states that "you have to know how to transcend the forms (genre) so you can give the audience the sense of orginality and surprise."