This document discusses different types and genres of movies. It begins by defining narrative as a type of movie that structures fictional stories. There are three main types of movies: narrative movies, documentary movies, and experimental movies. Documentaries can be factual, instructional, persuasive, or propaganda. Experimental films are personal, don't follow conventional narratives, exploit the possibilities of cinema, critique culture/media, and invite individual interpretation. Genres refer to how narrative films categorize their stories and storytelling techniques using conventions like theme, setting, presentation, character types, and formulas. Some American genres discussed are gangster, film noir, science fiction, horror, western, and musical.
2. Narrative is...
● A narrative is a story.
● Narrative is a type of movie.
● Narrative is a way of structuring
fictional or fictionalized stories
presented in narrative films.
● Narrative is a broader concept
that both includes and goes
beyond any of these applica-
tions.
3. Types of movies
● Narrative Movies
● Documentary Movies
● Experimental Movies
5. Experimental film
In response to the often-asked question
“What is an experimental film?” film
scholar Fred Camper offers six criteria
that outline the basic characteristics
that most experimental films share.
● Experimental films are not
commercial.
● Experimental films are personal.
● Experimental films do not conform
to conventional expectations of
story and narrative cause and
effect.
6. Experimental film cont.
● Experimental films are not
commercial.
● Experimental films exploit the
possibilities of the cinema.
● Experimental films critique
culture and media.
● Experimental films invite
individual interpretation.
7. Genres
Genre refers to the categorization of
narrative films by the stories they tell
and the ways they tell them.
