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semantic/syntactic approach to genre: a standalone construct

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Film studies

an account of film genre as both shared building blocks, its semantics, and the structures that arrange them, its syntax.

In film studies, semantic/syntactic approach to genre refers to an account of film genre as both shared building blocks, its semantics, and the structures that arrange them, its syntax. This meaning comes from Altman (1984) in Cinema Journal.[1]

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film1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct genre3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs semantics2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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Altman, R. (1984). A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre. Cinema Journal, 23(3), 6. https://doi.org/10.2307/1225093

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