STONER/MUSICAL: Big Lebowski + The Pick of Destiny by angussporran, literature
Literature
STONER/MUSICAL: Big Lebowski + The Pick of Destiny
QUESTION: Analyse the ways in which any two films of your choice operate as ‘generic hybrids’, deriving their possible meanings from more than one generic model. You may illustrate your answer with examples of specific film texts of your choice.
TEXTS:
The Pick of Destiny
The Big Lebowski
In film studies, some films transcend any easily applied generic category, others can be said to exist comfortably within a particular genre, and some (self-consciously or otherwise) exemplify a particular genre so well that they become known as 'genre films'. There is yet another type of film which also conforms to identifiable generic norms,