Essay Plans:

Account for the popularity of one genre of your choice. Illustrate your answer with examples.

Pick slasher, mentioning typical repitition and variation is subverted into repitition after repition.

Merchandising of monsters and iconography. Link into Nightmare on Elm Street.

Use Nightmare on Elm Street as an introduction to the Final Girl and gross-gender identification. Link to Texas Chainsaw Massacre (sp).

TCM introduces the broken family unit, with the Other and it's countering of white flight. Mention that it's villian Leatherface is typical of monsters.

Speak of monsters and masks they use.

Wrap it up; grosss gender and gore catches audience, merchandising makes monters renown, but before the merchandising their unknown nature tapped into primal fears of that which is not comprehended.

Second Plan:

"The audience may know what to expect, but are still excited by genre texts." To what extent is this true?

Genres are dynamic, thereby denounces that the audience will always know what to expect, but alternatively the basic convenetions will reoccuringly cement in subverted elements. The slasher genre is the epitome of this.

Slasher conventions, linked ith the name of movies; just rapid fire blasting them off. This basically would be an overview of the entire slasher genre. Final Girl and all, expected. Cap it with Scream as postmodernistic and adopting past, successful slasher conventions as progression, and thus alloting the audience what they would expect, and yet still maintain its dynamic stance. State that the audience also know what to expect due to merchandising.

Monster merchandising makes the audience more expectant f certain monsters, but may act as a synergy to propell audince into visiting cinemas to see their prefered villian's expected persona.

Look at Nightmare on Elm Street, try to say it somewhat contradicts the fact that slashers denounce the Cult of the Celebrity by featuring those typically who - the audience will expect - aren't stars. However that doesn't mean there wont be postmodernistic elements present for loyal genre fans, and this is shown in the family ties between daughter and mother over two slashers. The lack of stars can show that money is why, as according to Altman, that these type of genre movies are made. Also the lack of stars, perhaps making them more for directors and perhaps autuers. State Hitchcoft and Craven are examples.

Cravn for his postmodernism and expertise of slashers, Hitchcoft for Psycho.State that the former knew all the expected elements, which is why the audience can see the conventions running parallel in all his movies.