Genre Criticism

Michiarie LópezProf. Evelyn Lugo

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Definition

• Genre Is known as the category that defines literary or art

work. There is Television genre where different categories of programs have different characteristics. Film and Radio genres are developed with the audience expectations .

• Genre Criticism or Analysis Since the twentieth century it has been divided in 3

phases.

Phases

1. Focus on the formal features of communication.2. Focus on recurring socio-cultural circumstances.3. Critics have been applying formalist and socio-

cultural concepts to new media artifacts that tend to resist classification in traditional genre categories.

Approaches

a) Aesthetic • Focus on formal, stylistic features and innovations.• It looks deeper into the narrative structure.

b) Inductive• It establishes that, if a group of text conclude on similar

aspects, might constitute a new genre.• Is used to say what’s about.

Aspects that Critics identify and analyze

• Semantic (formal/stylistic)oCharacter typeoLocation oScene setting oCharacteristics of types of shots and camera workoStyle of actionoEditing

…

• SyntaxoNarrative structureoDialectoRecurring themesoDiscourses (themes that are ideological or other)

Types of GenreLiterary:

Autobiography

Biography

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Non-Fiction

Fantasy

Drama

Poetry

Short Story

Journalism

Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Film:

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Crime & Gangster

Drama

Epic/Historical

Horror

Musicals

Science Fiction

Westerns

War

Television

Non-Fiction

Television Series

Children’s Television

Documentary

Educational

Animation

Reality Series

Sports

Travel

Pornography

Politics

References • www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Genre_criticism• www.oswego.edu/~messere/TVCritPowerpoint/

Genre.ppt• www.crivoice.org/NTS/herm/Genre%20Analysis

%20pp.ppt• http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html• www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/

genres/menu• www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category/Television_genres