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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
· Explain the difficulty in defining genre, and contrast the advantages and disadvantages that genres offer film studios, filmmakers, and audiences.
· Describe the popular film genres of westerns, gangster, mystery, and film noir.
· Describe the popular film genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
· Describe the popular film genres of romantic comedy, musicals, and documentaries.
· Categorize films into genres, recognize when films cross genres, and analyze films using genres.
· Trace the history of popular sentiments and social issues through the evolution of films inside genres and recognize various social functions of genres.4.1 What Are Movie Genres?
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2. Introduction
Film Genre is where films can be split into different categories according to what type of
character they have in them, what happens and why it happens. Genres include films such
as sci-fi, romantic comedy, horror, thriller and so on.
Genre is important for film audiences as it helps them decide whether they’d like the film,
and whether they think it’s worth watching. As everyone likes different things; someone
might like romantic films, whereas another person would prefer horror. If someone were
to pay for a film where they didn’t realise which genre it is, they might have wasted their
money by realising they didn’t like it. That problem can be easily solved by the audience
knowing in advance whether they’d like it.
Genre is important for film producers as they need to know which type of film to create
and how to market it. If the genre of the film was thriller, they’d be able to include aspects
of that genre within the film posters and trailers, knowing exactly how to reel that
audience in. If they didn’t know the genre, then they wouldn’t be able to market toward a
specific type of audience, therefore they would lose money.
3. What is Genre?
Genre is the repetition of and variation of similar
conventions. The genre of a film could be told
from simply watching a trailer or glancing at a film
poster.
For example, a horror film wouldn’t have two
people looking lovingly into each other’s eyes or
an image of a whale in the background of a film
poster. It would have dark lighting, an intense
image and the suspicion that something horrible is
about to happen, like in the example to the right.
4. Genre Clichés
There are many genre clichés within films which make the genre of the film seem
unmistakable. For example:
Action Films
• There will almost always be an explosion somewhere in the film, creating action, suspense
and something interesting to watch. Almost always, the hero walks away with his back to it,
hardly even feeling the burning fire behind him.
• Guns. The majority of the time, there will be a scene with weapons, such as gun fights or
knife fights.
• A police chase of some sort will most likely take place, as these are entertaining to watch,
as well as being full of action.
• A villain/ villains who’s constantly after the protagonist.
Crime Films
• A detective.
• A murderer.
• The murderer is never the obvious choice.
• Many characters for many suspects.
5. Genre Clichés - Continued
Horror
• An intimidating, desolate place where something bad always happens.
• Those still, silent moments where the protagonist is completely alone.
• At least one death.
• A twisted, terrifying killer .
Romance
• Two main characters who fall in love.
• Soft, gentle music throughout.
• A fight/ break up scene half way through.
• Parents who don’t understand.
Science Fiction
• An alien/ monster of some sort.
• Space.
• New, interesting technology.
• Robots.
6. Hybrids
Despite genre being a key way to recognise what type of film it is and whether an
audience would like it, it’s just a simple way of recognising films and it isn’t always
completely true especially when hybrid films appear.
Hybrid films mix one of more genres with another and create sub-genres such as:
• Action Comedy
• Romantic Comedy
• Horror Comedy
• Who-dun-its
• Adaptions of genres which are based on true stories
• Teen Horror
• Slasher Horror
• Supernatural Horror
• Romantic Horror
• And so on
7. Conclusion
Genre is a good way of recognising films as it allows the audience to
recognise the films they like and it allows producers to market films for a
certain audience.
Despite this, clichés of genre aren’t always accurate, as many people try to
break out of typical genre clichés in order to be original and appeal to a wider
range of audience.
The majority of films are hybrid films as, usually, a film won’t completely
stick to one genre, instead include aspects of other genres within it. For
example, the hero of an action film might fall in love with his helper.
However, the main genre of a film should always be easy to spot.
