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Engendering Genre: Hong Sang-Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man

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What creates a new genre, particularly in so relatively young an artistic form as film? The same thing that creates a new genre in other art forms—a combination of social perception and aesthetic revision, or social change and aesthetic impulse—with the exception that film, in Robert Warshow’s words, is a more “immediate experience” than the other art forms (4 et passim).

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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Engendering Genre: Hong Sang-Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_33

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