framing in horror films; or fonts that look like rough-hewn logs for the titles of Western films. In addition, genres have associated film scoring conventions...
GenreFilms, usually credited as Kinberg Genre, is a production company founded by screenwriter-producer-director Simon Kinberg. GenreFilms in April 2010...
fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance...
The Western is a filmgenre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle...
feature films, especially from Hollywood fall fairly comfortably into one of a long list of filmgenres such as the Western, war film, horror film, romantic...
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...
Odyssey (1968), the science fiction filmgenre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became...
is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts. Genre is the term...
Horror is a filmgenre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter...
films often end with them. The film critic Stephen Neale suggests that the genre is for the most part well defined and uncontentious, since war films...
predominantly in the genre, films following an outsider, immigrant gangster protagonist, with whom the audience identifies. The first Japanese films about the Yakuza...
telling. Action films are often hybrid with other genres, mixing into various forms ranging to comedies, science fiction films, and horror films. While the...
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a filmgenre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve...
early defining heist films was The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which FilmGenre 2000 wrote "almost single-handedly popularized the genre for mainstream cinema"...
Comedy film is a filmgenre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have...
audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the...
advertising draw of cannibal films in combination with exaggerated or sensational claims regarding the films' reputations. The genre evolved in the early 1970s...
exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally...
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy...
A hybrid genre is a literary or filmgenre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. Works in hybrid genres are also referred...
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work. Masala films emerged in the 1970s and are still being created as of...
attacks or global catastrophes such as a pandemic. A subgenre of action films, these films usually feature some degree of build-up, the disaster itself, and...
adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival...