Action Adventure Genre
Rob Miller | Saturday January 19, 2019
Categories: Codes & Conventions
Contemporary Action Adventure Films (including hybrids)
- Your Highness (Adventure/Comedy Hybrid) 2011
- Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981)
- Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides (2011)
- Superman Returns (2006)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Romancing The Stone (1984)
- Stormbreaker (2006)
- Godzilla (1998)
- King Arthur (2004)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Chronicles of Narnia (2005)
- The Musketeer (2001)
- Blackbeard (2006)
- The Mummy (1999)
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Beowolf (2007)
- Gulliver’s Travels (2010)
- Bourne Identity (2002)
Codes and Conventions
- 12/15 certificate, maximising youth audiences
- Young, male, aspirational target audience – secondary female target audience
- Hybridised – often also with Sci Fi, Animation and Romance
- Innocent, often childlike representations
- Graphic violence is tolerated but dumbed down and often encoded with humour
- The narrative commonly involves a quest
- Major Hollywood studio produced and distributed
- High production values including CGI FX
- Fast paced editing
- Classic Hollywood 3 act narrative structure
- Predictable chain of events – narrative cause and effect
- Single stranded, linear, closed narrative
- Dramatic non-diegetic soundtrack
- More narrative action codes than…
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