Genre vs. Theme

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Genre vs. Theme

• Whats the difference?
• Lets first look at genre

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Genre vs. Theme

• Think of genre as a category in literature like
• can you think of any?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats the ticket
• tragedy, comedy, farce, fiction, non-fiction,
  etc
• these are all genres.

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Genre vs. Theme

• In film there are similar genres such as
  tragedy, comedy, farce, westerns, science
  fiction, fantasy, documentary, etcthese are all
  genres.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Now lets look at theme.
• When asked to look at theme think of topic.
• Or whats it about?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Whats it about?
• Whoa, isnt plot what its about?
• This is true in terms of the story, but theme is
  what its really about like between the
  characters.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Theme is something like loyalty, vengeance,
  unrequited love, redemption, etc

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Genre vs. Theme

• There are universal themes. Youll find these
  themes reoccurring over and over again.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Universal themes
• come from emotions
• and transcend (cut-through)
• culture, gender, age, geography,
• historical period and genres.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Remember genre?
• Lets think about genre again.
• Think about a story you know.
• Got one?

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Genre vs. Theme

• What genre
• would you place your story in?
• What was the theme?
• These are separate things and we need to know the
  difference.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Why you ask?
• So we can have a decent conversation with our
  date after the movie.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Lets look at genre again.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Star Wars belongs to a
• genre. Can you guess which one?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats right!
• Science Fiction.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Harry Potter belongs to a
• genre. Can you guess which one?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats right!
• Fantasy.

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Genre vs. Theme

• The Simpons belongs to a
• genre. Can you guess which one?

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Genre vs. Theme

• We call it satire, which is usually loaded with
  social commentary.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Now lets look at theme again. This time in the
  context of the genres we were playing with.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Star Wars has many themes. Can you guess some?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats right!
• love, loyalty, persecution, freedom, and
  redemption,
• just to name a few.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Harry Potter has a theme or two. Can you guess
  some?

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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats right!
• family, loss, love, community, and friendship,
  just to name a few.

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Genre vs. Theme

• Even the Simpons has a theme or two. Can you
  guess some?

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Genre vs. Theme

• You guessed it love, loyalty, persecution,
  freedom, redemption, family, loss, community,
  friendship and even corruption.
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Genre vs. Theme

• Thats it for this review. Hope you are clearer
  on the concepts of genre vs. theme and when
  asked to identify either one in a literary
  analysis wont be too confused. Keep reading!