So…first ftc day. Did everyone have fun? I know I did, except for the billions of microscopic ants crawling in my bra. Try being bitten by those buggers when you’re attempting to focus on film theory. Quite a difficult task, I’ll tell you.
In between twitching spastically, though, I enjoyed a lot of the points made in the articles we read. Especially I enjoyed the contrast between genre film and the notion of film as high art, and mutual exclusivity that seemed to exist between the two. A genre film, due to the preconceived notions involved in the concept of a genre (both in terms of syntactic and semantic elements), is prohibited by convention from ascending to the realm of high art, due to the fact that a genre film does not possess the originality or depth of a high art film. Disregarding completely the thorny issue of what makes high […]
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