The document discusses film genres and defines genre as a category of artistic works characterized by style, form, or content. It notes that films are categorized into genres based on narrative elements, settings, themes, emotional responses, target audiences, and type of production. The main genres listed are action, adventure, comedy, drama, crime/gangster, epic/historical, horror, musical/dance, science fiction, and war/anti-war. Many films are hybrids that combine genres and subgenres, with notable subgenres including biopics, courtroom dramas, detective films, and more.

1. FILM GENRE
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2. What is Genre?
■ a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular
style, form, or content (Miriam-Webster)
■ French word: “kind, sort, style”; (1770) “A particular style of art”; Nativized to English c.
1840
■ In film, different genres are characterized by:
– Narrative elements
■ Settings
■ Theme/topic
– Emotional responses
■ mood
– Target Audiences
– Type of Production
• Branched into numerous sub-genres
• Almost all movies are hybrids of genres
and subgenres

3. Action Adventure Comedy
Drama
Crime/Gangster
Epic/Historical Horror Musical/Dance
Science Fiction War/Anti-warWestern
MainGenres

4. Sub-Genres
Biopics
Chick Flicks
Courtroom Drama
Detective/Mystery
Disaster
Fantasy
Noir/NewNoir“Guy” movie
Melodrama/
Tear-jerker
Road MoviesRomance
Sports
Superhero
SupernaturalThriller

5. More Notable Sub-genres
■ Action
– Spy movies
– Martial Arts
– Race against theTime/
Chase
■ Adventure
– Swashbucklers
– Treasure Hunts
■ Comedy
– Slapsticks
– BlackComedies/Dark Humor
■ Epic
– Religious Films

6. More Notable Sub-genres
■ Horror
– Slasher
– TeenTerror
– Torture Porn
– Monster
■ Science Fiction
– Hard Sci-Fi
– Soft Sci-Fi
– Space Opera
– Dystopian Sci-Fi
– Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi

7. More Movie Sub-Genres
■ Drama
– Coming of Age
■ War
– War Drama
– MilitaryOperations
– Prisoner ofWar
– MilitaryTraining
■ Western
– SpaghettiWesterns

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