Genre theory is exploring each individual genre and how they adapt over time. Analysing specific genres and how they overlap with others and become sub-genres.

Structuralism is every detail being used throughout films, something to make the audience feel an emotion, for example placing knives in the background of a shot to make the viewer feel uneasy.

If I was going to explain structuralism to class I would use an example of a film which has attention to detail in every shot for example Stanley Kubrick’s ‘the shining’. point out all the codes and conventions used throughout which structure the film. This is what I would show and analyse in the first lesson. And in the second then possibly watch ‘the making of’ so you see the directiors reasoning for the decisions.