Genre?

What is Genre?

• Genre can offer comforting reassurance in an uncontrollable way
• It offers a set of esily recognisable conventions
• Genre functions can be seen as a set of rules like a language
• It was seen as a creative strategy used by producers to ensure the audiences identification and reduce the risk of a film failing
• Genre is not static it changes over time

Genre development

• The repertorie has expanded through the development of specific cycles.
• Studios are associated with sepcific genre developments

Main Genres

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Crime & Gangster

Drama

Epics/Historical

Horror

Musicals (Dance)

Science Fiction ( SciFi)

War (Anti-War)

Western

Sub Genres

Biographical ( Biopics)

Chick Flicks

Detective & Mystery

Disaster

Fantasy

Film Noir

Guy Films

Melodrama's, Women's or Weeper

Road Films

Romance

Sports

Supernatural

Thriller, Suspence