Generic Iconography: Visual Motifs and Semantic Elements

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Identify and deconstruct semantic building blocks such as recurring props, character types, settings, and lighting conventions.

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Analyse how genre conventions structure narrative expectations, reflect cultural anxieties, and evolve through hybridity and subversion.

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where relevant to the film set, the concept of genre, genre conventions and genre as a principal structuring element of narrative