Genre Hybrid and sub genres

 

Film Genres

 

 

 

 

 

Film genres are identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that have similar techniques or conventions such as:

 

• Content
• Subject matter
• Structures
• Themes
• Mood
• Period
• Plot
• Settings
• Recurring icons
• Stock Characters
  
• Narrative Events
• Situations
• Motifs
• Styles
• Props
• Stars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neale (2003) points out that generic norms and conventions may be recognized and understood by audiences, readers and viewers. Genre frames audience expectations, whereby viewers bring a set of assumptions with them and anticipate that these will somehow be met in the viewing experience. This brings audience pleasure. The demands of commercial practices necessitate that generic forms must somehow ‘guarantee meaning and pleasure’ in order to locate and retain a sizeable audience to justify a return on substantial investment. 

 

 

 

 

 

How genres have changed overtime.

 

 

Genres change and develop because of changes in the culture or historical period in which the genre is being produced. The Western solo hero who was popular in the 1940s and 1950s evolved into the group of heroes in the 1960s and 1970s with Rawhide and Bonanza—shows that reflected a shift in the workplace to that of the group in the corporation or company during that time. And, with the increasing interest in urban crime and international espionage in the 1970s and 1980s, the Western was replaced by the police/detective and the spy/thriller genres.

 

 During the Great Depression, audiences flocked to movie houses to view Hollywood romantic comedies as a way of escaping the grim realities of everyday lives characterized by poverty and deprivation.  During the 1990s, with the increased production of films and the control of media conglomerates over the types of films being made, an increasing number of formulaic genre films were produced. Film studios needed to attract large audiences in order to make a return profit on the millions they invested in high-production, special-effects films, so they turned to safe, familiar genres and sequels.

Hybrid Genres





 

a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. As opposed to the (literary and political) conservatism of most genre fiction. They are three or more genres or a mixture of sub-genres.

 

 

 

 

 Sub Genres


These are identifiable sub classes within the larger film genre, with their own distinctive subject matter, style, formulas, and iconography.
 For example:

Adventure Sub Genres: