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    This document discusses film genres and how they can be categorized. It notes that a film can fall into multiple genres, such as being both a science fiction and a comedy. Examples are provided of films that fall into different genres, such as comedies, westerns, dramas, horror films, musicals, and disaster films. The document also explores conventions that define genres and how certain elements like stars, settings, plots, and directors can cause a film to be a hybrid genre. It provides examples of films that are science fiction comedies or westerns. Finally, it discusses how genres have changed over time as audiences have changed, using horror films from the 1950s, 1980s, and 2000s as an

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    This document discusses film genres and how they can be categorized. It notes that a film can fall into multiple genres, such as being both a science fiction and a comedy. Examples are provided of films that fall into different genres, such as comedies, westerns, dramas, horror films, musicals, and disaster films. The document also explores conventions that define genres and how certain elements like stars, settings, plots, and directors can cause a film to be a hybrid genre. It provides examples of films that are science fiction comedies or westerns. Finally, it discusses how genres have changed over time as audiences have changed, using horror films from the 1950s, 1980s, and 2000s as an

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    Film Genre

    Film genres can be split into sub categories themselves. For example a film could be science fiction but also be a comedy, horror or a western.

    COMEDY: PAUL (2011)

    WESTERN: COWBOYS AND ALIENS (2011)


    DRAMA: SUPER 8 (2011)

    COMEDY: SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) SLASHER: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) MUSICAL: SWEENEY TODD (2007)

    COMEDY: HOT FUZZ (2007) SCI FI: IRON MAN (2008)

    DISASTER: TWISTER (1996)

    What is genre?
    There are several theorists that have different opinions on what genre is. DENIS MCQUAIL says that genre refers to the commercial and industrial significance of genre. He thinks that genre helps target audiences and capitalize on the success of earlier films. CHRISTINE GLEDHILL says that the differences between genres meant different audiences can be catered to. DAVID BORDWELL says that there are many ways of categorising genre and asks if genre is determined by style, content, structure or cultural factors.

    Conventions
    Because of certain conventions such as the stars, setting, plot and director a film can then become a hybrid, for example a sci-fi film, PAUL
    STARS: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost SETTING: American road trip to see extra terrestrial sights COSTUME: Popular sci-fi comics/characters on t-shirts CHARACTER TYPES: Nerds, funny, best friends or buddies PLOT: A road trip to visit alien sights in America turns into 2 friends helping a real alien to get home THEMES: Friendship, Protection, Romance DIRECTOR: Greg Mottola

    The same can also be done for another sci-fi film, COWBOYS AND ALIENS
    STARS: Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford SETTING: American Town in the 188:s, cowboys COSTUME: Cowboy hats, boots, guns, period dress code CHARACTER TYPES: Outlaws, Loners PLOT: Alien weapons in an American town are used to stop an alien attack THEMES: Justice/Conflict, romance DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau

    Both films are sci-fi but because of the plots, characters and settings, they automatically become hybrids, Paul a sci-fi comedy and Cowboys and Aliens a Sci-Fi action film.

    Other hybrid Films

    SHAUN OF THE DEAD: HORROR COMEDY

    IRON MAN: ACTION SCI-FI


    SWEENEY TODD: MUSICAL HORROR

    Do genres change over time?


    Genres do change over time, genres such as sci-fi have become more action orientated and genres such as horror have definitely changed. For example:
    THE BLOB (1958) This horror film from the late 5:s is about a mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a A NIGHTMARE ON landing on (1984) giant blob of jelly,ELM STREETearth. The people of a This is small horror film to listen the 8:s. nearby also a town refuse but from to some teenagers Nancy and her friends blob's power. In the meantime, who have witnessed the are having violent nightmares SAW (2004) which all element, the men feature one commonsides of a disfigured Twoblob just keepsat opposite bigger. a dirty, disused wake up on getting serial killer with a glove made of razors on his right bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between hand. When one of the group is murdered in their sleep. them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape Nancy realises that she must stay awake and try uncover player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit the truth behind this phantasmic killer Freddy Krueger for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die.

    All three of those films are horrors. One from the 5:s, 8:s and the ::s. This proves that genre changes over time, but this is mainly because the audience changes over time too. For example, The Blob contains no swearing, sexual content or graphic violence whereas by the 198:s in A Nightmare on Elm Street, special effects were getting more advanced and more swearing, sexual themes and graphic deaths were used to frighten a new audience. Saw however, the most recent of the films has a large amount of swearing, some sexual content and a large amount of graphic violence and gore. The audience for these films hasnt changed however, The Blob, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Saw are all mainly targeted towards teenagers. The characters within these films are also mainly teenagers or young adults.

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