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How do modern writers use cliches? (Genre Conventions (Films that define a…
How do modern writers use cliches?
Genre Conventions
Films that avoid typical genre conventions
You're Next
Get Out
Orphan
Films that define a cliche
Scream
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Blair Witch Project
Looking for common tropes within a genre
Horrors
Final Girls
Teenage Stereotypes
Sci-Fi
Exotic alien names
Human protagonist
Complex themes
Character archtypes
Subversion of a character cliche
The Mad Scientist is actually a good guy with a good intention but is doing it in the wrong way
The hero was the villain in the end through a plot twist
Justification of a character cliche
Damsel in Distress is shown to be component albeit being kidnapped is a result of her position
Compare two characters and how they subvert and define a cliche
Examples
Dumb Jock
Damsel in Distress
Comedic sidekick
Lovable Rogue
Wise Old Man
Orphan with secret past
Ugly Villain
Comparison of a cliche
Compare a cliche and how is used differently by two different authors
Discuss remakes and their reuse of tropes in service of nostalgia
How can I research this?
Secondary Research
Reading online articles on a people's reasons for preferring particular cliches
Looking over TV Tropes, a site dedicated to showing tropes/cliches and where they exist in our favorite TV shows, movies and literature
Primary Research
Interviews with people about what cliches they like and dislikes
Questionnaires asking what people think of certain cliches
Focus groups around a particular cliche and why