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Henry Jenkins
Born
in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
June 04, 1958
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GLOBAL GENRES—Introduction: Film Genre in the Age of the Global Shuffle
This contribution is an introduction to a series of forthcoming essays on genre and the ‘global shuffle’.
The auteur theory and genre analysis were the cornerstones of film studies in the United States. Film appreciation classes were added to the curriculum of many universities (and some high schools) in the 1960s and 1970s in response to two major developments: the emergence of New Wave movements
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“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”
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“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”
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“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”
― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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