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There's nothing wrong with genre (at all) but any system of classification is going to run into problems if it's the only system you use.

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In the interest of simplification, especially for the examples I used, I drew a pretty sharp line between form and content and I kind of considered narrative more part of content than form. Not everyone thinks this way. Here's an essay by Thompson and Bordwell with how they define these terms- http://interactive.usc.edu/membersmed...

"Very often people assume that "form" as a concept is the opposite of something called "content." This assumption implies that a poem or a musical piece or a film is like a jug. An external shape, the jug, contains something that could just as easily be held in a cup or a pail. Under this assumption, form becomes less important than whatever it is presumed to contain.

We do not accept this assumption. If form is the total system which the viewer attributes to the film, there is no inside or outside. Every component functions as part of the overall pattern that is perceived. Thus we shall treat as formal elements many things that some people consider content. From our standpoint, subject matter and abstract ideas all enter into the total system of the
artwork. They may cue us to frame certain expectations or draw certain inferences. The perceiver relates such elements to one another and makes them interact dynamically. Consequently, subject matter and ideas become somewhat different from what they might be outside the work."

I debated on using the Cleo clip because Varda is a Left Bank filmmaker and I've mostly been talking about French New Wave films in terms of Cahiers filmmakers. I want to represent more female filmmakers though and I really love that scene from Cleo so I went with it.

Links of interest:

"Reservoir Dogs" (1992) - Inappropriate Soundtracks
   • "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) - Inappropriate So...   I tweaked this one a bit for the essay (replaced the video source with something of better quality, censored the audio, etc)

Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover)
   • Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover)  

BFI Funded Films – Made with Support of the National Lottery | BFI
   • BFI Funded Films – Made with Support of th...  

Die Hard silent movie - The Ballad of John McClane
   • Die Hard silent movie - The Ballad of John...   note that this one uses some slurs, etc. It's in service of parodying 20s culture but they're slurs nonetheless

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