Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 46 No. 1, 2020.
Original scientific paper
Film genres in Ante Tomić novels
Renate Hansen Kokoruš
Abstract
Based on the apparent affinity of Ante Tomić’s texts with film the article analyzes the role of film genres for the composition of his novels. Architextual film elements constitute typical genre structures which include and transport semantic contents through the conceptions of figures, space, motifs and the like. Central to the study are comedy, melodrama, western and a subgenre of the gangster film, the Mafia film, which serve as a basis for the relationships of meaning in the author’s narrative texts. Even when he uses stereotypical images of conflicts and figures he avoids one-dimensional conceptions. Using popular genres he especially pays attention to gender roles, in particular to apparently traditional female figures who often deviate from the paradigm; this enables ironic and satirical approaches. In addition to figures he uses social structures and conflicts which are an inherent part of the film genres for the conception of the conflict’s background to embed the story and awaken the reader’s foreseen expectations. Semantic relations in his novels are generated in a complex interdependence where story and conflict establish the foundation of the film genre and often deviate from it in a humorous way.
Keywords
novels of Ante Tomić; architekstuality; semantics; literary figures; film genres
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246618
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Publication date:
20.10.2020.
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