Tom Ryall's Genre Theory

Development of genre theory emerges during the 50’s and 60’s. Genre studies started to categorise film according to specific typologies like things that worth the same. People started to write about how narrative structures connected things with similar aesthetic mode and also ideological positions. Genre theory is really important because it’s one of the theories that basically covers all elements of film industries. Tom Ryall argued that genre can be distinct as patterns that outdo individual films and also supervise both the construction by the filmmaker and reading by the spectators. In this situation, there’s two things that involved, which is that genre operating as a construction process that a filmmaker thinks this is the genre to work
It’s a process of blending and integrating a number of generic codes into the one film. Basically, genre hybridity is to broaden the range of audiences. The more hybridisation, the more people will actually get on board for the film, it allows to attract a whole range of different people, it’s a kind of pluralist participation. By hybridising the genres, it encourages to bring different audiences segments together, during the process, more and more people will get on board. A film’s narrative may stick to the one particular genre but the other elements such as the characters or setting might be representing a different genre. This kind of narrative structures can bring together various audiences. Also, by incorporating other elements from other genres, it brings in other people who are really strongly engage with those elements. For example, if a movie is a comedy-horror, it attracts people who really loves comedy and people who enjoys horror to watch that particular film. By hybridising things, it actually broadens the audiences and also make more
After ruining an important mission accidentally, the FBI agents fall in disgrace towards their agency, therefore they decided to take on a case which is under their usual standards to get back into good graces of their boss. The situation came out hilarious as various incidents happened throughout the scenes. The film is directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans as the FBI agents. The film can be labelled as a hybrid from genre perspective as the films contains elements and characteristics that relates to more than a type of genre. It is stated that White Chicks contain of crime and comedy genres, which these elements also could be find from the scenes of the