genre- Les Revenants

 genre 


"French supernatural drama television series"

  • 26 nov 2012 on canal+
  • uk 9 June 2013 on channel 4 
  • 2 series, 8 ep each
  • based on the French film 'They come back'
  • (les revenants) (dir. Robin Campillo 2004)
  • created by Fabrice Gobert 

difficult to categories, won an international Emmy for best drama 2013. 
  • supernatural  horror text
  • supernatural drama
  • IMDB- 'drama, fantasy, horror'
  • rotten tomatoes- 'mystery/suspense'

Polysemic- has multiple meanings 



Horror




































-Horror conventions, mystery creepy child following this woman 
-always in the dark, with a blank expression, not typical of a normal child 



Supernatural














- butterfly comes back to life 




Drama






















Avant-garde

- not typical of a zombie style film, their not eating people and are not portrayed as scary or dangerous
-seen as out of place between life and death 




Zombie
















French 

















Steve Neale - genre 

- genre works through presenting a series of easily identifiable generic paradigms to ensure an audience. 
- to maintain an audience over time the producers must vary the genre conventions. 



how Steve Neale links to Les Revenants

there is a varies of genres displayed through out Les Revenants, such as horror, drama and supernatural, this keeps the audiences attention.








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