This is a slideshow on genres.

1. GenreA genre is a type of category that a movie fits in.

2. Types of Genre:
• Horror
• Thriller
• Action and Adventure
• Western
• Science fiction
• Romance
• Comedy
• War
• Musical

3. Western
Western films have some of the following
features:
• Cowboy hats
• Guns
• Horses
• Mountains or a desert
• Indians
• Cowboys
• Gunfighters
• “taming the west”
It is a system of signs/symbols/themes which a
particular genre can be recognised

4. Horror
Horror films may contain some of the following:
• Haunted places
• Dark places
• Gloomy setting
• Isolated places
• Innocent people

5. A contract between the audience and the film-
makers. Audience build up “genetic memory”
and can predict what will happen – this is so the
director can play on this idea. So they can
change the expectation.

6. Genre Boundaries
E.g. Terminator 2:
• Action
• Science fiction
Genre boundaries can be flexible and you can get hybirds (e.g. Terminator 2).
Terminator 2 contain two different genres: Action and adventure and Science fiction.
Another hybird is back to the future 3. This contains: Action and adventure, science
fiction, comedy and romance.

7. Terminator 2
Terminator 2 is a science fiction and an actor film.
It is a science fiction because it show that the
terminator is scanning people with his digital
eyesight. Also he is an indestructible robot, I
know this because when the man tries to burn
him with his cigar, it doesn’t effect him. The
terminator also time travels which shows it is an
science fiction. This is also an action film because
when the man in the pub pushes his cigar on the
terminator, the terminator fights back. Which is
the action part of the film.