Month July 2016

A genre I find interesting, and one with lots of conventions, is that of the Western. This genre has gone through a number of stages in it’s development, and many directors have recently played with the conventions created in the… Continue Reading →

I am looking forward to a fantastic semester ahead, exploding genre into smithereens!!! I intend to get a lot from this semester, as it is vastly different from my two studio’s before this. While my last two semesters have been… Continue Reading →

In Week 2, the second reading discusses the development of  a film category called Asian cinema. According to Olivia Khoo, the development of Asian cinema as an institutional category discretely emerged out of political and cultural debates during the 1980s…. Continue Reading →

Wow! With just one reading and one class down, I can already see the world of genre exploding in my mind. This weeks reading was an intriguing piece, as it was a discussion between famed authors Neil Gaiman and Kazuo… Continue Reading →