The Guardian list's the following as the main genres of film:
Action and adventure
Animation
Bollywood
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Horror
Music documentary
Musical
Period and historical
Romance
Science fiction and fantasy
Thriller
World cinema
Whereas, popular book series 1001 Movies to See Before You Die defines films into these genres:
Art-house, Comedy, Epics, Film noir, Horror, Musicals, Romance, Social drama, Science-fiction, Thrillers, War, and Westerns.
Instantly this shows just how people everywhere struggle to truly define a film's genre these days. Living in a technical world whereby anyone can pick up a camera and make and share their own film (as we are doing), film is an ever-growing medium, and the laws that define what's what are ever changing. When you add on to the above lists all the subsidury and crossover genres you can begin to imagine just how big the world of film now is.
Wikipedia in fact states the multiple methods in which films are categorised "according to their setting, theme topic, mood, or format." Then comes the question as to who actually categorises the film, with a large part of films being about gaining a personal response from it's audience, a lot actual comes down to personal opinion.
Wikipedia then proceeds to list 65 different genres, and even then there are some missing. Clearly I cannot analyse all the genres in the world of film but I will try to cover the basics.
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Your blog is still(!!!) on US time.
ReplyDeleteYou could address the issue of hybrid genre too (the concept of + arguments around postmodernism), and should consider the economic imperative of coherent genres
See the horror blog for a brief post on Scream4, and the romcom blog for a set of links on genre
You need to fix the links under your 'OUR GROUP' links list, and the 'films i've seen' list should surely be a links list?! links to reviews/trailers/imdb entries would make sense for those, but also basic info - director, year, perhaps genre/s. And what is 'S Darko'?!
ReplyDeleteWill fix the links now and add them to the film list too, and "S Darko" is the sequel to Donnie Darko (not by the original director)- it's about his sister Samantha. It was a straight to dvd release unsuprisingly.
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