Concept of Genre (Lecture) - Revision history

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 #*Narrative structure
 #*Theme
 ==See also ==
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 *“The members of any given category do not create, define, or constitute the category itself. Categories link a number of discreet elements together under a label for cultural convenience.”<ref name="Mittel">Jason Mittell, ''Genre and Television'' (NY: Routledge, 2004).</ref>
 *“Rather than emerging from texts as has traditionally been argued, '''genres work to categorize texts and link them into clusters of cultural assumptions through discourses of definition, interpretation, and evaluation'''. These discursive utterances may seem to reflect on an already establish genre, but '''they are themselves constitutive of that genre'''; they are the practices that define genres, delimit their meanings, and posit their cultural value.”<ref name="Mittel" />
 [[Category:TCF440/540 Lecture]]

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 Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (1942):<ref>http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/wilkins.html</ref>
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 **#"common cultural consensus"
 **#*Rely on presumed consensus: "genre is what we collectively believe it to be."
 **A working definition uses both approaches
 ****Validated by films themselves
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 ==References==
 <references/>
 [[Category:TCF440/540 Lecture]]

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 Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (1942):<ref>http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/wilkins.html</ref>
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 **#"common cultural consensus"
 **#*Rely on presumed consensus: "genre is what we collectively believe it to be."
-**#*Jason Mittell: “Rather than emerging from texts as has traditionally been argued, '''genres work to categorize texts and link them into clusters of cultural assumptions through discourses of definition, interpretation, and evaluation'''. These discursive utterances may seem to reflect on an already establish genre, but '''they are themselves constitutive of that genre'''; they are the practices that define genres, delimit their meanings, and posit their cultural value.”<ref>Jason Mittell, ''Genre and Television'' (NY: Routledge, 2004), xiv.</ref>
+**#*Jason Mittell: “Rather than emerging from texts as has traditionally been argued, '''genres work to categorize texts and link them into clusters of cultural assumptions through discourses of definition, interpretation, and evaluation'''. These discursive utterances may seem to reflect on an already establish genre, but '''they are themselves constitutive of that genre'''; they are the practices that define genres, delimit their meanings, and posit their cultural value.”<ref name="Mittel" />
 **A working definition uses both approaches
 ****Validated by films themselves

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 Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (1942):<ref>http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/wilkins.html</ref>
-These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into
+These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled ''The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge''. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into
 #belonging to the Emperor
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 #trembling like crazy
 #innumerables
-#drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
+#drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
 #et cetera
 #just broke the vase
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 *Andrew Tudor: "empiricist dilemma"<ref name="Tudor">Tudor, Andrew. ''Theories of Film''. London: Secker and Warburg, 1974.</ref>
-**"To take a genre such as the 'western', analyse it, and list its principal characteristics, is to beg the question that we must first isolate the body of films which are 'westerns'. But they can only be isolated on the basis of the 'principal characteristics' which can only be discovered from the films themselves after they have been isolated."<ref name="Tudor" />
+**"To take a genre such as a ‘Western’, analyse it, and list its principal characteristics, is to beg the question that we must first isolate the body of films which are ‘Westerns’. But they can only be isolated on the basis of the ‘principal characteristics’ which can only be discovered ''from the films themselves'' after they have been isolated."<ref name="Tudor" />
-**Tudor's solution: "common cultural consensus"<ref name="Tudor" />
+**Tudor's two solutions:<ref name="Tudor" />
-***Rely on presumed consensus: "genre is what we collectively believe it to be."<ref name="Tudor" />
+**#''A priori'' criteria, "depending on the critical purpose"
-***Working definition uses both approaches
+**#"common cultural consensus"
 ****Validated by films themselves
 *Ways of defining genres
 #Audience response

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 ==Definition problem==
 *Andrew Tudor: "empiricist dilemma"<ref name="Tudor">Tudor, Andrew. ''Theories of Film''. London: Secker and Warburg, 1974.</ref>
 **"To take a genre such as the 'western', analyse it, and list its principal characteristics, is to beg the question that we must first isolate the body of films which are 'westerns'. But they can only be isolated on the basis of the 'principal characteristics' which can only be discovered from the films themselves after they have been isolated."<ref name="Tudor" />

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