GENRE STUDIES
CST2GES
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Students will study the visual style and aural codes of popular film and television genres. They will investigate how these codes engage the audience in the pleasurable repetition of certain kinds of stories, characters and dilemmas. Students will use key concepts from genre theory to research a specific genre such as melodrama, comedy, thriller, musical, noir, epic, horror, fantasy, scifi or animation. They will show how genre-specific codes have been taken up and remixed in other media including magazines, photojournalism, advertising, video clips, radio plays and online.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Felicity Collins
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 2 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: N/A
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: CST3GES
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A