Let's learn more about film types

1. types of film
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2. action
• high energy
• big-budget physical stunts and
chases
• rescues, battles, fights, escapes,
destructive crises (floods,
explosions, natural disasters,
fires, etc.)
• non-stop motion, spectacular
rhythm and pacing, and
adventurous
• often with 'good-guy' heroes or
heroines battling 'bad guys'
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3. horror
• designed to frighten and to
invoke our hidden worst
fears.
• There are many sub-genres
of horror: slasher, teen terror,
serial killers, wampires,
zombies, Satanic, Dracula,
Frankenstein.
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4. adventure
• exciting stories, new experiences or
exotic locales
• traditional swashbucklers, serialized
films, and historical spectacles ,
searches or expeditions for lost
continents, "jungle" and "desert"
epics, treasure hunts, disaster films,
or searches for the unknown.
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5. comedy
• to amuse and provoke laughter
(with one-liners, jokes, etc.)
• various forms of comedy through
cinematic history, including
slapstick, screwball, spoofs and
parodies, romantic comedies,
black comedy (dark satirical
comedy), and more.
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6. romance /love
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7. science fiction
•
* scientific, visionary and imaginative
* heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible
quests, improbable settings, fantastic places,
great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic
technology, unknown and unknowable forces,
and extraordinary monsters ('things or
creatures from space'), either created by mad
scientists or by nuclear havoc.
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8. thriller
• intense excitement, suspense, a high
level of anticipation, ultra-heightened
expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and
nerve-wracking tension.
• there are action-thrillers, crime-caper
thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir
thrillers, even romantic comedy-
thrillers.
• The acclaimed Master of Suspense is
Alfred Hitchcock.
• Spy films
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9. war
• the horror and heartbreak of
war, letting the actual combat
fighting
• action, adventure, drama,
romance, comedy (black),
suspense, and even epics and
westerns
• stories of military operations,
and training
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10. animated
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11. western
• the major defining genre of
the American film industry
• six-guns, horses, dusty
towns and trails, cowboys,
Indians
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12. documentary
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Nonfiction
Actualities
Documentation
Window onto the world
Animals, plants, etc.

13. crime and gangster
• criminals or mobsters
• bankrobbers, underworld
figures, or ruthless hoodlums
• outside the law, stealing and
murdering their way through life.
• serial killers
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14. historical
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15. musical / dance
• full-scale scores or song and
dance routines
• combinations of music, dance,
song or choreography.
• subgenres include the musical
comedy or the concert film.
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16. dramas
• serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic
characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving
intense character development and interaction.
• No special-effects, comedy, or action
• melodramas, epics (historical dramas),
or romantic genres.
• Dramatic biographical films
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