Genre Theory
‘genres are instances of repetition and difference’... Discuss what this statement means in relation to the duel scene from The Magnificent 7, directed by Antoine Fuqua? Use specific evidence from the scene to support your ideas. From this quote, Neale means that if all genres are the same then it will become boring and people will stop watching movies as they will know what is going to happen, and so if there is some repetition which shows which genre the text is, then it will still be understandable for people and they will want to go and watch it if it is a genre of their liking. Also, he means that there needs to be some difference within the text otherwise people will start to find it boring and too repetitive and so they will stop watching films of a certain genre. In the Magnificent 7, for a movie of this genre there is still some repetition as otherwise people won't enjoy the movie at all and so will not enjoy it if there is absolutely n...
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