Keywords

Keywords

film franchise
formulaic films
mass audience
star types
box office
linear narrative
hegemonic values
passive audience
structure
difference in repitition

3 theories/theorists

Genre Theory
Barry Keith Grant
Dyer
Douglas Pye
McArthur
Steven Neal

qoutes to use

"Generic consistency allows for the short hand of convention." Douglas Pye

Genre movies "encourage expectations and experiences similar to those of similar films we have already seen" Barry Keith Grant