Film genres

There are many genres of television films like, crime, adventure, comedy, chick flicks, war stories, and many more. The horror genre of television films has to be the most unique of the genres. Many television watchers view horror films to be a negative genre because it plays on peoples fear. Like clowns, vampires, zombies, and home invasions. Most people would rather watch a positive film that can make them optimistic and not want to go to bed having nightmares and new fears. That’s why horror…

May Option 2: Horror Film Syllabus A horror movie can make us scream and even laugh. We have our opinions about certain movies, either we love them or we absolutely hate them. How did the genre horror develop into a distinct form of the filmmaking experience? What are the historical influences, formal pacts, and cultural expectations that define horror as a genre? The idea of this course is to learn and experience the supernatural horror film genre. A variety of films will be shown to…

The readings from this week were “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” by Linda Williams and “Mega-Melodrama! Vertical and Horizontal Suspension of the ‘Classical,’” which is also by Linda Williams. The thesis that was articulated for “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” reads “This essay explores the notion that there may be some value in thinking about the form, function, and system of seemingly gratuitous excesses in these three genres… My hope, therefore, is that by thinking…

In what I have to say is possibly one of the worst so-called horror genre films I have seen in recent years, The Purge - set supposedly a decade ahead of today, in United States - is a truly silly idea in that the so-called New Founding Fathers allow everyone in the country, on one night only each year, to give vent to all their pent-up hatreds and frustrations by freely committing any crime they want without fear of prosecution. It seems that, in what has to be the unlikeliest of scenarios,…

In Linda Williams “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess”, she discusses the way films can provide viewers with a sensational reaction to the physicality of the body whether being in acts of pleasure or pure disgust. What I found interesting was Williams perspective on the way one receives what her adolescent son phrases as “gross” movies. Williams’s depiction of “gross” movies are horror films that tend to have vigorous violence or disdain towards female promiscuous characters. A convention of…

Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were who the world was cheering on in the 1930s film world. The gangster film genre was in full swing, and as Robinson and Cagney ascended repeatedly to become kingpins of a given town only to fall back to being nothing again, a hopeful named Humphrey Bogart was just beginning his acting career. Stephen Bogart, the son of soon to be movie star Humphrey Bogart, stated in his book about his father that Humphrey was “not happy playing those parts.” Humphrey…

camp is an army corporal named Courcey who wishes to go back home after his experiences in the war. Introduction Movie genres are classified as combat, comedy, romance, horror and many others. By watching a movie, the audience can tell the genre by examination of the themes, setting and characters. For a movie to belong to a certain genre, it must follow the conventions of that genre. However, a movie can belong to a certain class but fail to conform to the norms of that class. They…

Lang, 1931) is a cinematic German piece that aided in introducing the psychological thriller genre to a wide audience across the globe. When compared to American cinema at the same time, M is distinguishable by its’ dark theme and clear opposition toward the Nazi regime in a time of censorship, American cinema during the time was experiencing the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood, producing very star-studded films that were transitioning from the family friendly to adult oriented and thus, also…

Genre: The Secret of Scenes in Science Fiction. Science fiction is a genre that is well known to raise many questions about the world we live in and how humanity might react to certain situations be it the possibility of aliens, zombies, or robots. Although, when analyzing the category of science fiction as a whole, how can one really classify something as science fiction? Throughout an analysis of the film Resident Evil (2002), in relation to two other science fiction films titled Jurassic Park…

western is. Westerns are more of an older genre as they are not made much in the modern day and age. To understand westerns, knowing the basic themes and elements would be most helpful. The four main themes of a western include: Man vs. Nature, Good vs. Evil, East meets West and Isolation. These themes will give you an indication as to what your plot might be about and are the basic guideline the movie will follow. Other things that might indicate a western film are known as elements. These…