1.7 Genre

Genre plays a significant role in the construction of message and values. To what extent is this evident in La Haine & Pans Labyrinth/City of God?

La Haine Revision Notes from South Sefton College

Cog 7 genre convention handout from South Sefton College

Lh course booklet from Naamah Hill

Key Thought: Which of these films did well internationally, and why do you think that is?

Starter: What is the difference in how Pans is sold to an English speaking audience compared to it's domestic market?

Some notes

- Marketing affected by genre
- Fantasy well marketed internationally
- U.S trailer presents the film as slightly horror
- Easy to understand film due to its fantasy genre
- Genre is the same all over the world, makes it easily accessible
- Propps Theory (fairytale)
- Its genre is not important for messages therefore it is easier to accept worldwide

 Pans Labyrinth – Fantasy

-       Pans Labyrinth uses the fantasy genre as it is one that is accepted worldwide and can be viewed and understood by all audiences

-       Offers an opportunity for people to watch the film as a serious contextually strong piece of national cinema or as simply a fantasy from Ofelia’s point of view allowing it to be an international bestseller

-       The use of fantasy allows the messages of the film to be portrayed through the innocent eyes of a child, without the use of fantasy Ofelia would be facing up to real people rather than the monsters that she and we as the viewer sees

-       Allows us through the use of a fantasy genre to see how the war scars the children of Spain at the time