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	Genre Analysis in Film	Filmnarrativ analys
Ämnesområde	Medievetenskap	Medievetenskap
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1984	1980
Upphovsperson	Rick Altman, Steve Neale	Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal
Typ	Analytical method for identifying genre conventions, evolution, and ideological work in cinema	Analytical pipeline for deconstructing cinematic narrative structure
Ursprungskälla	Altman, R. (1999). Film/Genre. British Film Institute.	Bal, M. (1997). Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. University of Toronto Press.
Alias	film genre criticism, genre theory, genre conventions	narrative structure analysis, story analysis in cinema
Närliggande	5	5
Sammanfattning	Genre Analysis in Film is a method for systematically examining how films belong to and innovate within recognizable categories—horror, Western, science fiction, melodrama, comedy—each with characteristic conventions, visual styles, narrative structures, and ideological concerns. Developed through film studies by scholars like Rick Altman and Steve Neale, the method recognizes that film genres are not fixed natural categories but socially constructed, historically contingent systems that structure both film production and audience expectations. Genre analysis examines what conventions define a genre, how individual films conform to or challenge those conventions, how genres evolve over time, and what ideological work generic conventions perform.	Film Narrative Analysis is a qualitative method for examining how stories are told through cinematic techniques and structures. Developed from literary narratology and adapted for film studies by scholars like David Bordwell and Mieke Bal, it deconstructs the relationship between story (fabula), plot (sjuzhet), and narration to understand how meaning is created. This method is fundamental to film criticism and provides a systematic framework for analyzing how viewers construct narrative coherence from visual and audio elements.