This document discusses different approaches to analyzing movies, including genre analysis and auteur theory. It focuses on using genre analysis and Lacey's Repertoire of Elements, which examines the setting, characters, narrative events, iconography, style, and technical/audio codes of a movie. The document provides examples analyzing the movies Pulp Fiction, Walk Among the Tombstones, Mean Girls, and Napoleon Dynamite to demonstrate how these elements establish a movie's genre and whether it follows genre conventions or takes a more unique, auteur approach.