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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] NOW: Westerns......
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:52:33 +1000
Hmmmm - sounds like he modified (pinched) Tom Kuhn's Philosophy of  
Scientific Revolutions.
Neat trick.
AndrewF


On 30/05/2005, at 2:44 PM, R. Jackson wrote:

> The one way they touch on it is when you study
> Bazin's notion that genres go through phases. He said that genres
> begin with an "experimental phase" where conventions of a genre are
> established, then it moves to the "classical phase" where genre
> conventions are reinforced and then it enters a "revisionist phase"
> where the conventions are subverted and the death of a genre occurs
> at the "parodic phase" where the genre becomes fodder for parody.



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