Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ok, Anti-Genre and being serious

So I am serious about this anti-genre thing.  But the next step is to find out how it can be applied to something outside of a fictional character in a movie.  From what I see, an anti-genre is something this is like side effect of Lipitor or some mass produced pharmaceutical.  It is both unexpected and unwelcome but it is a product of the environment.  I guess that is why people refer to Batman as a Vigilante.  But a vigilante, while reliant on the context to maintain status, does not need to produced by that context.  So the anti-genre goes further.  Nor is it completely a free-radical, becuase the free-radical completely disassociates itself from the ideology of the discourse.  As I stated before, terrorism may fit the bill here.  

But, I also have to discover the relationship between anti-genre and the genre.  And, how can anti-genre be communication based.  Like the Joker said, "It's not about money;  It's about sending a message."      

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Movement of Discourse

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.   

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.