Christian Metz (Decemeber 1931- September 1993) was a French film theorist
He believed there are always certain structures that goes into the construction and pleasure of the cinematic spectator and that genre develops in four stages.
The stages are:
Stage 1: Experimentation- the early stages: setting up buildint blocks for future texts of the genre. This is when the generic codes and conventions are being developed.
Stage 2: Classic- Texts which become seen as inconic of the codes and conventions.
Stage 3: Parody- Media texts which mock the codes and conventions of the genre, becoming farical.
Stage 4: Deconstruction- Text which begin to unpick the well established codes and conventions to form hybrids and often 'uncoventional' texts from the genre.
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