Film Section 7 - Genre - chapter 10

genre

cross-cutting

A type of editing that alternates between two or more distinctly separate spaces, suggesting that the events shown are separate but simultaneous strands of one and the same action which will eventually bring them together (as in chase and last minute rescue scenes)

parallel editing

the process of alternating between two or more scenes that happen simultaneously in different locations (time) within the world of the film.

The production code

prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape.

genre

a type or category of film

convention

an artistic practice or process or or device that is widely used and commonly accepted and understood within a given culture

semantically

concentrates on the similarities

syntactically

concentrates on varibale relationships between structured, odered elements.

repetition

a recognizable framework in which not only the filmmakers but audiences operate.

variation

similar characters, but with differences