Genre

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**Entrance Card: Film Art chapter 9: How do genre films perhaps keep audience members from rebelling against real injustices, according to the chapter?**

Group Presentations! //Brick// (U.S. Rian Johnson, 2005)

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

//Cold Souls// (U.S., Sophie Barthes, 2009)

 Paul, an actor preparing for "Uncle Vanya" on Broadway, is mired in ennui. His agent tells him about an office where he can put his soul in storage. He does so then discovers that being soulless helps neither his acting nor his marriage; he returns to the office and rents, for two weeks, the soul of a Russian poet. His acting improves, but his wife finds him different, he sees bits of the borrowed soul's life, and he's now deep in sorrow. He wants his own soul back, but there are complications: it's in St. Petersburg. With the help of Nina, a Russian who transports souls to the U.S., he determines to get it back. Who has he become?

//Incendies// (Canada, Denis Villeneuve, 2010)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to the Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

 //Meek’s Cutoff// (U.S. Kelly Reichart, 2011)

The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.

//Paraguayan Hammock// (Paraguay, Paz Encina, 2006)



Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

Assignment: Read chapter 5, //Indiewood, USA// and complete Paper II Draft.