This document discusses different types and genres of movies. It begins by defining narrative as a type of movie that structures fictional stories. There are three main types of movies: narrative movies, documentary movies, and experimental movies. Documentaries can be factual, instructional, persuasive, or propaganda. Experimental films are personal, don't follow conventional narratives, exploit the possibilities of cinema, critique culture/media, and invite individual interpretation. Genres refer to how narrative films categorize their stories and storytelling techniques using conventions like theme, setting, presentation, character types, and formulas. Some American genres discussed are gangster, film noir, science fiction, horror, western, and musical.
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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?
A genre is a type, or category, and genre films are usually easily recognizable as part of a certain genre. This is because they tend to use familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography (visual imagery with symbolic implications), all of which lead viewers to have certain expectations about what the movie will be like before actually watching it. For various reasons, which we shall note, genre films are prime candidates for analysis to reveal significance far deeper than the surface stories. Many genres also have a variety of related subgenres with more narrowly defined formulas and expectations. For example, any film in the horror genre can be expected to produce fear or anxiety in the viewer; some of the many subgenres of horror films include the vampire film, the zombie film, the monster movie, the mad doctor movie, the insane slasher-killer movie, and the psychological horror film, among others.
In Evil Dead II, a freewheeling horror film directed by Sam Raimi, Ash, the protagonist, played by Bruce Campbell, experiences some genuine terror, including (but not limited to) cutting off his own possessed hand with a chainsaw. Audiences and critics alike found it intense and scary. They also found it hilarious. How can a movie that includes the following exchange not be?
Ash (talking to mirror): I'm fine . . . I'm fine . . . (Mirror Ash jumps out of the mirror and grabs Ash.)
Mirror Ash: I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?
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Little Big Man is a revisionist western. It takes the genre's conventions and reverses them. The Indians are the heroes and General Custer is the villain.
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2. Narrative is...
● A narrative is a story.
● Narrative is a type of movie.
● Narrative is a way of structuring
fictional or fictionalized stories
presented in narrative films.
● Narrative is a broader concept
that both includes and goes
beyond any of these applica-
tions.
3. Types of movies
● Narrative Movies
● Documentary Movies
● Experimental Movies
5. Experimental film
In response to the often-asked question
“What is an experimental film?” film
scholar Fred Camper offers six criteria
that outline the basic characteristics
that most experimental films share.
● Experimental films are not
commercial.
● Experimental films are personal.
● Experimental films do not conform
to conventional expectations of
story and narrative cause and
effect.
6. Experimental film cont.
● Experimental films are not
commercial.
● Experimental films exploit the
possibilities of the cinema.
● Experimental films critique
culture and media.
● Experimental films invite
individual interpretation.
7. Genres
Genre refers to the categorization of
narrative films by the stories they tell
and the ways they tell them.
