Genre

• To which genre does the text belong?
• What are the major generic conventions within the text?
• What are the major iconographic features of the text?
• What are the major generic themes?
• To what extent are the characters generically determined?
• To what extent are the audience’s generic expectations of the text fulfilled or cheated by the text? Does the text conform to the characteristics of the genre, or does it treat them playfully or ironically?
• Does the text feature a star, a director, a writer etc who is strongly associated with the genre? What meanings and associations do they have?

The film “Tangled” is a hybrid of genres including: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, and Musical. Within the film there are several musical numbers which the characters sing at dramatic times. This is main convention of the musical genre.  The film is all animated and done via computers and new technology therefore fits into the Animation genre.  The film also follows the genre of comedy this is through the use of silly remarks or actions throughout the film. For example a high comical is the tension between Flynn Ryder and Maximus the horse. In a comedy genre film one convention is that the genre always holds a funny character. In the film “Tangled” that character is Maximus. The main genre of the film is fantasy. This is connoted though the magical essence of the film. For example Rupunzel’s magical hair. The film is from the institution Walt Disney, which is highly associated with the fantasy and comedy genre. So it is typical that it would have these two main genres within them.