2017-06-20

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Lindsay Ellis

Genre is one of the building blocks of film language - but what genre does Transformers fall into anyway?

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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