Do now activity genre theory

 1. Steve Neale believed there needed to be repetition and difference in a genre to make films entertaining.

2. Christian Metz said that there were 4 stages to creating a genre: experimental, classic, parody, deconstruction

3. Altman commented on the 3 types of pleasures: visceral, intellectual and emotional. syntactic and semantic. 

4.Todorov said there was a cycle films follow: equilibrium-> disruption->realisation-> repair-> restoration

5. Strauss used binary opposition in order to tell a story. (good and evil)

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