Indeed, the elegy outlined a structural form in Greece, a romantic declaration in Rome, and a poetic tool for mourning in Europe and England. Because the elegy went through so many iterations since its creation, it has varied wildly in meaning and usage. Frow uses the example of the elegy, a form of poetry that has crossed many cultures throughout history, to illustrate his point. In his book Genre: The New Critical Idiom, John Frow cites literary critic and scholar Yuri Tynianov as he addresses the cultural and temporal paradigms that shift public perception of genre. Moreover, influences from the noir genre are clearly visible in style and tone, although many of these ideas are reinterpretations of recurring motifs of both older film noir and of the graphic novel on which it was modeled. In doing so, other media, including animation and comics, leak into the film’s DNA – not unlike the form-challenging choices made by Edgar Wright in Scott Pilgrim vs. The film works as a faithful adaptation of Frank Miller’s comics of the same name by mimicking the framing, themes, and art style of the source material. While this sequence is not a part of the film itself, as an opening animatic, it is representative of how the filmmakers conceived the big screen version of Sin City. The camera pans over several motion comic scenes that phase in and out between shots from the film and drawings from the pages of Frank Miller’s graphic novel. Suddenly, the camera pulls out of the frame and the city skyline changes back into a static black and white picture once more. The camera pans into the rain, offering a sweeping view of the city: a shot straight out of the film. The frame morphs into the figure of a black and white man crouched with a red-dressed woman laid across his lap. Ī black and white hand-drawn frame from the Sin City graphic novel appears on the screen as the Blu-ray menu for Robert Rodriguez’s film adaptation idles in the background.

I chose to talk about Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City. For this essay, my professor asked us to find a film and talk about how it uses elements from different media, genres and styles to create something entirely new.

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