http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered Fresh culture daily. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/genre-in-general-%e2%80%a6-on-the-web/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/genre-in-general-%e2%80%a6-on-the-web/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:26:56 +0000 Annie and Lisa http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=22092 Last week found me mired in dystopian cinema. One side effect, other than a few bad dreams, was simply more thought devoted to genre in general. It’s summer, when genre really rears its head! Romantic comedy becomes somehow even more romantic, horror feels … horrific, the science fiction film is as big and real as the block-busting multiplex screen it was born to illuminate. But what about the small screen? How much, in other words, has film genre really permeated the web? Clearly, we all know that a certain strand of comedy is alive and well on the internet. Think Will Ferrell and his toddler daughter Pearl, yukking it up a few years back on funnyordie.com. The Landlord from Will Ferrell Don’t get me wrong – this bit is still so hilarious that I laugh out loud. But just how far has comedy expanded on the web since then?]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/genre-in-general-%e2%80%a6-on-the-web/feed/ 0