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GENRE & THEORY — MUST KNOW
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GENRE: A set of expectations/codes guiding audience interpretation.
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GENRE & THEORY — MUST KNOW
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CULTURAL CAPITAL (Bourdieu): Knowledge/taste = social power (knowing genre codes gives status).
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FORDISM: 1945–70 system: mass production, suburbanization, rigid gender roles, paternalistic authority.
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PATRIARCHY: Male authority normalized by Fordism; women constrained socially.
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DREAM WORK (Freud)
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DREAM WORK: Manifest content: what happens. Latent content: hidden desire/fear. Films operate like dreams (lecture thesis).
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IMPOSSIBLE GAZE (Lacan)
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IMPOSSIBLE GAZE: Seeing oneself from an impossible perspective → identity breakdown.
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MIRROR STAGE (Lacan)
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MIRROR STAGE: Identity formed through recognition; shattered mirrors = fractured self.
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DEATH DRIVE: Repetition of trauma; destructive self-tendency.
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THE UNCANNY: Familiar becomes strange; identity/space destabilizes.
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COSMIC HORROR: The unknown, indifferent universe; humans insignificant.
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SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Debord)
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SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE: Modern life becomes representation instead of experience. 'Appearing > Being.'
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REIFICATION: Treating humans as objects or profit units. Key in Jaws, Poltergeist, Barbarian.
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UTOPIA & SCHISMOGENESIS
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UTOPIA: Moments where alternative, cooperative social relations emerge. SCHISMOGENESIS: Cultures defining themselves through opposition.
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INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS
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INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS: Indigenous peoples imagining survivable futures after colonial apocalypse.
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🎬 FILM-BY-FILM CRAM
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⭐ CARNIVAL OF SOULS: Mary = dead; film is a dream-space.
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⭐ NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Zombies = return of repressed violence.
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⭐ POLTERGEIST: Suburbia built on graves → capitalist reification.
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⭐ JAWS: First blockbuster → tentpole model. Reification: mayor values profit over life.
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⭐ PONTYPOOL: Virus spreads through language. Semiotic collapse → identity dissolution.
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⭐ MULHOLLAND DRIVE: Dream structure = plot ≠ story. Doubling / mirroring; the Cowboy = psychopomp.
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⭐ THE BACKROOMS: Liminal spaces = office horror; uncanny architecture; endless hallways.
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⭐ SEVERANCE: Split identity: innie vs. outie. Workplace as extreme Fordist enclosure.
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⭐ BARBARIAN: Home hides generational male violence; patriarchy; repressed trauma buried underground.
