Genre | The Whole Plate: Episode 4

Genre is one of the building blocks of film language - but what genre does Transformers fall into anyway? Twitter: @thelindsayellis Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/lindsayellis Sources: Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. Boston: Pearson Education, 2015. Print. Nichols, Bill. Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print. Benyahia, Sarah Casey, and Freddie Gaffney. AS Film Studies The Essential Introduction. N.p.: Taylor and Francis, 2014. Print. Cawelti, John G. "Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Film." Film theory and criticism: introductory readings. 1992, Oxford University Press. New York, Oxford. Print. http://www.virginiabonner.com/courses/cms2100/readings/Chinatown%20and%20Generic%20Transformation.pdf