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He often makes use of genre, turns the expected response to his purpose.
Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 science-fiction drama and pastiche, "Alphaville" (which I discuss in this clip) is, among other things, an exemplary use of genre conventions and cinephilic references to explore the filmmaker's philosophical ideas and intimate concerns.
The B-movie shows I've listed here are often more sly than earnest, but McGee's point remains valid, and the canny use of genre formats allows these low-budget shows to explore this thematic evolution with a surprising degree of freedom. .
I'm not sure which attitude was worse -- contented ignorance of how the conventions of constant classification had put unnecessary limits on my musical discoveries, or my more recent belief that the use of genre labels to separate real/perceived differences in music was a necessary evil.
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I think that the use of genres has just gotten totally out of control.
Her picaresque adventure is a peculiarly Off-Broadway use of the genre; here, the character goes everywhere and learns nothing.
It also marks the use of literary genre elements in the "real" world, a formula that would later be refined by Quentin Tarantino.
Country and blues artists, on the other hand, tend to be more mindful of their past: they make frequent use of their genre's history, both as a sign of respect for earlier masters and as a way of lobbying for membership in the canon themselves.
A social venture called Hip Hop Psych has been set up by a neuroscientist at the Cambridge University department of psychiatry promoting the use of the genre to aid the treatment of mental illness, arguing that an awareness of mental health is ubiquitous in hip-hop.
Agrippa himself referred to his use of this genre in his Apologia (Opera, 2: 257–330), a defense of the book directed against the condemnation by the theologians of Louvain and the Habsburg administration in the Netherlands.
Hamann's use of this genre itself makes the point: the demand that only one meaning may exist for a text arises from an impoverished notion of meaning and creativity; one that misunderstands the nature of composition and the nature of interpretation alike.
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