But, even if the label of anti-genre is correct or not (or even possible), this does not change the fact that this dynamic is occurring and reoccurring. What I am more interested in is how this concept of anti-genre can be applied outside of a fictionalized discourse. Can it be applied to something text-based? I think there is a real possibility that it can. Right now I am just keeping my eyes and ears open to various possibilities.
Friday, February 6, 2009
The anti-genre
So this whole concept of an anti-genre may actually work within the realm of the The Dark Night (the movie), but can it work anywhere else? And of course, when I say genre, I am referring to the character in the movie, not the comic book, not the character through the various series of comics and graphic novels, and the first string of Batman movies. As I say in my last post, I am calling the very character of Batman in The Dark Night (the movie) an anti-genre. I say he has the qualifications of being a genre because others attempted to copy his very likeness. He is a direct product on the ideology of Gotham. But he is simultaneously repelled by the very system that created him. This may also be the definition or part of the definition of a vigilante. In literature, he may even be labeled the anti-hero.
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