Genre is a way of categorising films into sections, which will appeal to different audiences. It is a french term meaning 'type' or 'kind'.
some examples of genre are :
- Film Noir
- Action
- Adventure
- Horror
- Thriller
- Family
- Comedy
- Romance
- Western
- War
- Science Fiction
- Documentary
- Crime
- Gangster
- History
Rom-Com is a romantic comedy
A way in which you can establish what genre a film is, is through the iconography.
The iconography is the way we describe the particular signs that identify a particular genre for example the props on set, the mise-en-scene, what you can see when you watch the film that links to a certain genre, an example would be :
a western film would have iconography such as
cowboy hats, horses, deserted places, tubleweeds.
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