Assignment:
Gina Marchetti writes about the link between genre and ideology. Describe this link and discuss how it works in a specific example from the action-adventure genre. Further, what are at least two ways that the action-adventure formula maintains ideologies of gender, race, and class? How has the formula shifted in order to make concessions to the dominant ideology? In what ways do these shifts challenge dominant ideologies, and in what way do they maintain them?