Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies – Miscellaneous, grade: 1, 7, University of Dusseldorf ‘Heinrich Heine’, language: English, abstract: In this paper Tarantino’s movie ‘Django Unchained’ will be analyzed in respect of the genres that can be applied to it in order to figure out whether it is a genre hybrid and what effects this hybridity has. Due to the limited scope this term paper will focus on the two genres that have probably been the most controversial ones with regard to this movie, the spaghetti Western and the Blaxploitation Movie, and furthermore touch upon the Buddy Movie genre.
‘What kind of film do you want to see?’ is a question that often arises before people turn towards a movie, be it in cinema or elsewhere. But what do they mean with ‘a kind of film’? One could paraphrase this expression with one single word: genre. Genres help people to classify movies and affect their expectations towards the movie they are going to see. Someone watching a ‘romance’ will be expecting something different than somebody watching a ‘horror film’. Furthermore many movies cannot be specified to be of only one genre but show properties of several different genres.
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