[7.1] Teaching Film/Television Genres, Comics/Graphic Novels, and Popular Music

[7.2] Different Approaches to Genre Study

[7.3] Audience-based Approach

[7.4] Critical/Ideological Analysis Approach

[7.5] Film Versus Television Genres

[7.6] Resources on Different Genre Types

[7.7] [7.7] Analyzing Different Genre Types

[7.7a] Action/Adventure

[7.7b] The Western

[7.7c] Gangster/Crime

[7.7d] Detective/Film Noir

[7.7e] Comedy

[7.7f] Science Fiction/Fantasy

[7.7g] Horror/Monster

[7.7h] Suspense Thriller/Spy/Heist

[7.7i] Soap Opera

[7.7j] The Talk Show

[7.7k] Sports

[7.7l] Game Shows/
Reality TV

[7.7m] Animation

[7.7n] Comics

[7.7o] Graphic Novels

[7.7p] Music

[7.8] Music

[7.9] References

[7.10] Final Task

Powerpoints

Action/adventure films:

[7.7a.1] lmsite.org: Action Films
[7.7a.2] filmsiite.org: Adventure Films
[7.7a.3] IMDb.com: Action
[7.7a.4] 50 top adventure films
[7.7a.5] Cop action films
[7.7a.6] Action/adventure TV shows
[7.7a.7] Lycos.com: Television: Action Adventure

[7.7a.7a] Wikipedia: Action movie
[7.7a.7b] Everything2.com: Action films

[7.7a.8] There are also a number of subgenres in this category, for example, disaster, spy thriller/espionage, historical episodes/military, jungle/ wilderness exploration, martial arts, treasure hunters, vigilante, and mythic adventure.

Road movies:

[7.7a.9] Hack Writers: Road Movies

[7.7a.10] UC Berkeley: Road Movies

[7.7a.11] Google.com: Road Movies

[7.7a.12] Media Awareness Network: The Blockbuster Movie

[7.7a.13] Disaster Online: disaster films

[7.7a.14] About Action Adventure films

[7.7a.15] The Action Kings

[7.7a.16] Webquest: Titanic: An Unsinkable Disaster

[7.7a.17] Action film/Action games

[7.7a.18] Female action films

[7.7a.19] Schneider, K.  (1999).  With violence if necessary: Action-thriller films Journal of Popular Film and Television.

Anti-Terrorism TV Shows

[7.7a.20] 24: Fox Network show about Los Angeles Counter-terriorism unit

[7.7a.21] Wikipedia: 24

[7.7a.22] Showtime Network: Sleeper Cell

[7.7a.22] The Unit

For further reading:

Inness, S. (2004). Action chicks: New images of tough women in popular culture. New York: Palgrave.

King, G. (2001). Spectacular narratives: Hollywood in the age of the blockbuster. New York: I.B. Tauris

Osgerby, B., & Gough-Yates, G. (Eds.). (2001). Action TV: Tough guys, smooth operators and foxy chicks. New York: Routledge.

Tasker, Y. (1993). Spectacular bodies: Gender, genre and the action cinema. New York: Routledge.