Question 1b: Some Genre Theories - in Brief

There is a lot of information about genre theory here at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre.html

The Theory of Binary Oppositions
Structural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908) claimed that all cultural myths (and fims are a type of cultural myth) are structured according to binary pairs of opposite terms. This approach is inviting for the analysis of genre films, which tend to work by reducing complex conflicts to the equivalent of black hats versus white hats.
Find out more about this theory at http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/extras/binaryopposition.htm

The Theory of 'The Other'
Genre movies are always about the time in which they are made, not set, for entertainment inevitably contains, reflects, and reinforces ideology. It is in this sense of entertainment as ideology that Roland Barthes (1915–1980) conceives of myth. For Barthes, cultural myths endorse the dominant values of the society that produces them as right and natural, while marginalizing and delegitimizing others. In genre movies, as Barthes says of cultural myth generally, the Other becomes monstrous, as in horror films, or exoticized, as in adventure films. In westerns, for example, Indians are either demonized as heathen savages or romanticized as noble savages, but they are rarely treated as rounded characters with their own culture.

Try to explain your chosen production in the light of either Barthes' or Levi-Strauss' theories.