(Post 3) Genre


Genre

A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form which people consider as a class because it has special characteristics.
Genre Theory 


A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the emotional response to the film (namely, tragic, comic, etc.) or the narrative elements. Most theories of film genre are borrowed from the literary world. The basic genres include fiction and documentary, from which subgenres have emerged, such as docudrama. Other subgenres include the courtroom and trial-focused drama known as the legal drama. Types of fiction which may seem unrelated can also be combined to form hybrid subgenres, such as the melding of horror and comedy such as in the Shaun of the Dead. Other popular combinations are the romantic comedy and the action comedy film.


Genre can be guessed or told through the film's techniques, for example mise en scene, cinematography and editing. If a film is dark and has an element of eeriness, perhaps the stereotypical "shaky hand held camera" in the woods with slow and drawn out shots followed by fast cutting parts, it can presumed to be a horror film.

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