The Team Film Genre

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  • Jeremy Strong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/kinema.vi.1125

Abstract

CREWS, SQUADS, SEVENS, ELEVENS AND DOZENS: THE TEAM FILM GENRE THIS article argues that there exists a genre that it terms the team film. It is not claimed that the films discussed have previously resisted generic analysis, for they also have characteristics that locate them in a wide range of other genres. Rather, it is contended that by virtue of key shared properties - including textual features, the audience expectations and interpretive strategies they provoke, and marketing practices - these films additionally may claim affiliation to, and invite understanding in terms of, a common genre.     Andrew Tudor maintains that:     Genre notions - except the special case of arbitrary definition      - are not critics' classifications made for special purposes;     they are sets of cultural conventions. Genre is what we     collectively believe it to be.                                                            (Tudor 139) It should be acknowledged that what follows runs the risk of appearing...

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Published

2006-11-20

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