- How has the academic reception of popular genres changes over time?
- What might the value be of studying them?
One of the reasons that genre changes over time is due to that fact of audience expectations but when it comes in terms of the academic reception of such genres. Although asides from this, after some research that had been done, in terms of contemporary audiences they are likely to be far more sophisticated viewers than in comparison to the audience who had first seen moving pictures or television programmes. Thus which then leads the audience to be more familiar with established genres that they have for instance read texts from, this is primarily because they feel the connection and once more a sense of familiarity due to such codes and conventions they have come across before. For instance, if one was to watch an action/adventure film and supposedly the protagonist dies and does not manage to save the damsel in distress, you are bound to be surprised and be caught off-guard as this was not something you were to expect; or for example if you are watching a romance film then typically you would expect the female to end up with the male she is in love with (“Why genre changes over time?,” 2014). However, because there are certain aspects of familiarity with these codes of conventions such as for instance the character, setting and music which all then further tends to raise expectations, and again these expectations are based on the readings of similar content of texts. More or so due to such popularity of certain texts it tends to prove that for a lot of the viewers “familiarity breeds contentment rather than contempt”(“Why genre changes over time?,” 2014). Despite this, these texts still need to repeat the pattern of certain codes and conventions all the while adding something new and the purpose of this is to keep the audience from seeing the same context and keeping the genre supposedly to be “fresh and new”, this for example can be done by a motive of contemporary setting, means of a plot twist or perhaps even a scene where the antagonist acts or behaves unexpectedly. The value of studying such changes is beneficial as it greats a better understanding amongst what sorts of different types of content that there may be; Finding out about the highlights of various sorts of such given genres enables perusers of these types of texts and/or content to perceive what they are perusing and rapidly modify their understanding and preferences in terms of reading styles. In actuality, readers tend to frequently go over novel structures and kinds. The primary concern to watch is that a sort is positively not a resolute shape which these genre works must fit into, yet a social occasion of compositions that share certain resemblances – whether or not of structure, execution setting, or subject. For example, all the compositions that make up the more established kind of per state misfortune share certain ‘family likenesses’. They are sensational works written in a particular method for language, they consider human feelings, for example, for example pity, they show divine beings like for instance gods and goddesses speaking with human individuals, and so forth and so forth. That at that point further allows us to consider them to be an undeniable social occasion. Regardless, yet certain ‘middle’ highlights depict any given sort, the restrictions of each class are fluid and are consistently penetrated for academic effect (“Why literary genres matter,” 2014).
References:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23416317?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
Why literary genres matter. (2014, October 1). OUPblog. https://blog.oup.com/2014/05/why-literary-genres-matter/
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