Genre Scene Analysis: Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone 1968) END SCENE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHF1iDoYqU

 

Students are required to choose one of the following films relating to the first 6 weeks
of the course and construct an analysis of one scene. Drawing on the genre theory
covered in lectures and tutorials, students will use their knowledge of the genre to
investigate how the scene of their choice does some or all of the following:

0 Employs specific narrative conventions that adhere to genre

0 Utilises specific character conventions that adhere to genre

0 Construct specific mise en scene conventions that adhere to genre.

0 How it attempts to subvert or revise any of these genre conventions.

This analysis must be focused on the scene only, although reference to the scene
within wider structures within the film or television show as a whole is acceptable (ie,
the narrative/aesthetic conventions of this scene are the culmination of these series of
factors within the film that conform to the genre).