Thomas schatz hollywood genres

1. read the reading I attached carefully.(it is in order by number)

2. identify the argument and main points in the reading.

3. Tell what Thomas Schatz thinks in your own world.

4. no outside recourses!! Use your own world!!!

5. 5 pages. double spaceRunning Header: THOMAS SCHATZ’S FILM GENRE AND GENRE FILM THOMAS SCHATZ’S FILM GENRE AND GENRE FILM Institutional Affiliation Date 1 THOMAS SCHATZ’S FILM GENRE AND GENRE FILM 2 Thomas Schatz provides a detailed analysis of the film genre and the genre film by focusing on the Hollywood genre, more specifically the contrasting genres of Western and Musical. According to him, film genres act as the meeting point between the studios and individual film and he encourages a structural and grammatical understanding of how stories and characters are constructed through genres. Schatz is drawn to the powers of the Hollywood studio system, which is broader and less personal. This argument is significant a contribution to contemporary debates about genres and ideology, particularly in its attention to communal meaning of film genres. (p.454) He explains that a genre film can be examined in terms of plot, setting, and character, which are its most fundamental narrative components. And this is the same to any story. In addition, each genre film has more than just a physical setting, as it incorporates a specific cultural context. Schatz, as an example, compares drama to genre film, where he says that drama establishes a community disturbed by conflict, while in genre film both the community and the conflict have been conventionalized. He further adds that “familiarity with any genre seems to depend less on recognizing a specific setting than on recognizing certain dramatic conflicts that we associate with specific patterns of action and character relationships” (p.455). Therefore, Schatz is able to develop a hypothesis, “the determining, identifying feature of a film genre is in its cultural context, its community of interrelated character types whose attitudes, values and actions flesh out dramatic conflicts inherent within that community.” Meaning that a film genre is based on more than just the physical setting, the individual character, or the visible traits in the context.