1. Genre Analysis
What is Genre?
A: Genre from French genre , "kind" or "sort",
from Latin genus, Greek is any category of
literature or other forms of art or
entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or
spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of
stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by
conventions that change over time as new
genres are invented and the use of old ones
are discontinued. Often, works fit into
multiple genres by way of borrowing and
recombining these conventions.
Genre began as an absolute classification
system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry,
prose and performance had a specific and
calculated style that related to the theme of
the story. Speech patterns for comedy would
not be appropriate for tragedy, and even
2. actors were restricted to their genre under the
assumption that a type of person could tell
one type of story best. In later periods genres
proliferated and developed in response to
changes in audiences and creators. Genre
became a dynamic tool to help the public
make sense out of unpredictable art. Because
art is often a response to a social state, in that
people write/paint/sing/dance about what
they know about, the use of genre as a tool
must be able to adapt to changing meanings.
In fact as far back as ancient Greece, new art
forms were emerging that called for the
evolution of genre, for example the
tragicomedy.
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4. The Genre of my choice:
I have chosen a Hybrid genre for my film.
Hybrid Genre are a mix breed between
different types of genre and are emerging and
becoming popular amongst the audiences. I
have chosen the Hybrid genre Suspense Drama
as my film’s genre.
