Cita de The world in a frame (1976), de Leo Braudy. Cando as cousas se explican ben…
In fact, the history of convention in American film has always been the history of successive exhaustions of convention. The exposure and elaboration of certain actors and actions pleases and solaces the audience but then finally leaves it cold. When the genre conventions can no longer evoke and shape either the emotions or the intelligence of the audience, they must be discarded and new ones tried out. Genre films essentially ask the audience, “Do you still want to believe this?” Popularity is the audience answering, “Yes.” Change in genres occurs when the audience says, “That’s too infantile a form of what we believe. Show us something more complicated.” And genres turn to self-parody to say, “Well, at least if we make fun of it for being infantile, it will show how far we’ve come”.
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