Pulp Fiction

Genre Blending

McLuhan, Kpop, and Media Theory

Screen Play

The Graduate

MRS. ROBINSON

Oh. I guess this isn't the bathroom, is it?

BEN

It's down the hall.

They stand for a moment, loocking at each other.

MRS. ROBINSON

How are you, Benjamin?

BEN

Fine, thank you. The bathroom is down at the end of the hall.

Mrs. Robinson moves into the room and sits on the edge of the bed.

BEN

Look, Mrs. Robinson, I don't mean to be rude but -

Mrs. Robinson takes a cigarette from her purse and lights it.

MRS. ROBINSON

Is there an ashtray in here?

BEN

No.

MRS. ROBINSON

Oh - I forgot. The track star doesn't smoke.

She blows out the match and puts it down carefully on the bedspread. Ben picks up a wastebasket, walks over to the bed, picks up the match and puts it in the wastebasket.

MRS. ROBINSON

Is it a girl?

BEN

Is what a girl?

MRS. ROBINSON

Whatever it is you're upset about.

BEN

Oh - no. I'm just sort of disturbed about things.

MRS. ROBINSON

In general.

BEN

That's right.

There is a long pause.

MRS. ROBINSON

Benjamin, I want to ask you something.

BEN

What?

MRS. ROBINSON

Will you take me home?

BEN

What?

MRS. ROBINSON

My husband took the car. Will you drive me home?

Ben reaches into his pocket and hands Mrs. Robinson a set of car keys.

BEN

Here - you take it.

Mrs. Robinson looks at him.

BEN

Do you know how to work a foreign shift?

Mrs. Robinson shakes her head.

BEN

You don't?

MRS. ROBINSON

No.

(there is a pause)

BEN

Let's go.

She throws the keys to him. He catches them.



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Howl

Throughout our daily lives technology is more than drastically apparent. Our days are now spent tracking and recording our lives than we actually spend living them. Our phones are always by our sides and very few tasks aren’t somehow supplemented without some sort of “app”. 

As kids our generation was not so reliant on technology. Playing with actual toys instead of video game apps or having to rewind the vhs tape before watching it are all things kids of this generation are not going to experience half as much as we did if not at all. There is a separation between these two generations that will never be gapped, even my little sister who is only four years younger than me will not experience many of the traditions us “90’s kids” cherish.

Our generation experienced the gap between a semi digital and full digital world. I believe this will define us as a generation because we have experienced all the advancements in technology but are still able to relate back to a time when technology was not as prevalent. This allows us to view things in a subjective way and fully evaluate the need for all this technology. Personally I believe that technology is a great thing, especially at this school I believe lots of people would agree with that statement. But regardless of that fact I often finding myself wondering what life would be like if I never had a Facebook or the internet or a cell phone. Things would not be more difficult I would say but they would be drastically less accessible and less efficient. But who says that is a bad thing. I remember going to the library as a kid to do research for a school project. We would check out books to find facts, take notes and make posters. Now all you have to do is a quick google search and copy paste into a PowerPoint. I think that there is a lot of value in both of these methods. I still prefer to take hand written notes because the action of writing things down helps me remember them. 

In Class 9/10/13

A genre is a way to classify or categorize stories, wither it be movies, music, books etc. The plot, characters and other elements of the story go into the classification of a genre. The time period also very often plays a role in the type of genres that are created.

The effect of a genre may allow you to stereotype and limit yourself to separate genres. You may not have liked Sci-Fi movies but that doesn’t mean you are going to dislike all Sci-Fi movies.

These movies no longer can just be classified around just one genres, most movies now need two or three because movies can span over so many different genres.

Mystery as a genre has now transformed more into crime solving than mystery. 

Genre evolves with the time and the environment you are living in.

The genres have basic formulas that define the story, this formula is going to have different variables which will alter the movies and progress the genre forward. 

Literature is the object that genre is defining. Genre can be applied to literature as well as movies, music, and many others.

Li'l Abner

For my comic strip I chose to read Li’l Abner, this is a comic that as I was growing up my grandfather would always reference it. I never knew what it was until reading it for this class. I enjoyed reading this comic because very often you could understand the story at first glance. Like all people in this class I am very visual and my mind absorbes information much quicker and clearer when I have a physical image of it in my head. I could read the same sentences multiple times but I will not remember it half as well as I would if there was some sort of visual clue to help me take in the information.

I think comics are a really interesting way to do this, because often times people read to use their own imaginations. Stories are a great way to let your mind run with a story and the images that you create in your head may be drastically different from someone else reading the same story. But with comics the imagery is already there for you. One thing I experimented with while reading this text was to go through and entire page and try to understand the plot without reading the text that goes along with it. Often times I was able to comprehend the basic jist of the story, but sometimes the images were too vague to follow. Without reading the text in some places you could become totally lost in the story, and same with if you removed the images. The comics themselves are very reliant on the imagery. Comics seem to me to be a very dependent art form, without one the other suffers.

This brought up many questions for me about comics in general and the creators of them. If it is just one person would they consider themselves an artist or an author? If there is an author and an artist how do they work in unison to ensure that the comic will be composed in the most ideal manner? Do the authors/artists create the plot then draw the images and then come up with the text or vice versa? I wonder what the process these artists go through is like? When you are creating a piece of work that is so heavily dependent on another medium of information one must be more dominant to guide the other along. Unless Al Capp would draw and write the text simultaneously. I feel like illustrating and writing comics would be a difficult task because you need to balance the two so it is clear wither you like reading them or just browsing them.