"Genres are definable in terms of specific combinations of features stemming from the double orientation in life, in reality, which each type of artistic 'form of the whole' commands - an orientation at once from outside in and from inside out. What is at stake in the first instance is the actual statuss of the work as social fact: its definition in real time and space; its means and mode of performance; the kind of audience presupposed and the relationshop between atuhor and audience establish; its association with social institutions, social mores and other idealogical spheres; in short - its full 'situational' definition." pp. 6-7
Volosinov's description of genre.
Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press, 1993.
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The idea of genre is always fascinating to me. Genre is not just a category, but an extremely powerful informing agent, especially in the world of art and cinema. Genre works reciprocally with the audience to create expectations. It surrounds us.
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