Outline recent significatn developments in one genre of your choice. Illustrate your answer with examples (January '03 b)

Intro:
. Slasher developments.
. how it has changed?

Para 1:
. zeitgeist - change in time genre has to keep up in order to gain audience.
. Issues happening at time time.
. Teenage market - slasher killers targeted at the teenagers
. Theorists - Strauss - binary oppositions - teenagers vs. killer

Para 2:
. 'Moral issues links to previous para... done in order to gain mass appeal...
. People relate to issues happening now '70's "white Flight"'
. Easier to determine what is happening and when.

Para 3:
. Technology = more money = better effects...
. Easier to get audience...

Conclusion:
. Sum up how slasher changes to keep up with time.
. How technology play big role.