Abstract

This essay advances a theory of generic criticism attuned to bodily affect. Aligning form with affect and genre with meaningful emotion, genre is described as the way in which the feeling of form is delivered to language. The primary example is Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, which was marketed as a melodrama, but which exemplifies the generic norms of pornography.

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