Genre simply means 'type' or 'kind'. It is used in a variety of different disciplines, from music to literature to categorise and define different forms of repetitive practice.
Genre is a set of conventions- recognisable, usually through iconography (which simple means, things you'd expect to see in a film) familiar narrative, mise-en-scene, actors and style of representation.
Genre is a creative strategy used by film producers to ensure audience identification with a film- a means of trying to predict risk.
Genres are not static but constantly renegociated between industry and audience- a combination of familiar reassurance and new twists.
Genre functions like a language- a set of rukes and a vocabulary with which to organise meaning.
Genre is a way of working through important myths and fears by repition, variation and resolution.
Genres offer comforting reassurance in an uncomftable world. Threat is quashed outlaws become civilized gangsters go to prison, romances end in marriage. Genre is a way of tidying up the mess of life.
Early Genres
The earliest genre's include genres such as western The term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western Fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form. Western films commonly feature as their protagonists stock characters such as cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, often depicted as semi-nomadic wanderers who wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, and buckskins, use revolvers or rifles as everyday tools of survival, and ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on trusty steeds. The first Western film was the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery, which was a silent film.
Other film Genres include; Action and Adventure, animation, Bollywood, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, family, Horror, Music Documentary, Musical, period and Historical, Romance, Science Fiction and Fantasy, thriller, War films and world Cinema.
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