The film genres
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The film genres |
The film
genre is the general theme of a film that is used for its classification.
Cinematographic
genres, like the genres of other artistic fields, have their origin in
classical culture. The two older Greek genres: comedy and tragedy; one of light
style, apparently superficial and happy ending theme, and the other affected,
deep and sad outcome. These genres were diversified in the theater, and the
first feature films tried to imitate them. However, the possibilities of the
cinema completely separated it from the traditional genres, creating new genres
characterized by the scarce complexity of its regulation.
It is
important to point out that, in the first decades of cinema, the genre of films
was corseted, with very delimited characteristics that helped the viewer to
quickly understand the film. However, after the Second World War, the genres
began to mix creating diverse productions and strange specimens.
The
cinematographic genres are classified according to the common elements of the
films they cover, originally according to their formal aspects (rhythm, style
or tone and, above all, the feeling they seek to provoke in the viewer,
adjustment). Alternatively, the cinematographic genres are defined by their
setting or by their format. The following genera are often specified to form
subgenres, and can also be combined to form hybrid genera.
Currently
there is no consensus regarding film genres and there is a complex series of
classifications:
• Action - whose argument
implies a moral interaction between "good" and "evil"
brought to an end by violence or physical force.
• Science fiction - is based on
a near or very distant future, where you can see the progress of technology and
how it runs in history.
• Comedy - films made with the
intention of provoking humor, entertainment and/or laughter in the viewer.
• Drama - in movies, films that
focus mainly on the development of a conflict between the protagonists, or the
protagonist with their environment or with themselves.
• Fantasy - the opposite of
science fiction. The inexistence of technology gives us to understand what
happens in the past time. Magic and mythological animals or events without a
logical explanation are part of this world.
• Melodrama - has a very strong
emotional or moral or emotional charge, depending on the taste of each person.
• Musical - they contain
interruptions in their development, to give a short recess through a musical
fragment sung or accompanied by choreography.
• Romance - a romantic or loving
development between two people.
• Suspense (Spain) / suspense
(America) - made with the intention of provoking tension in the spectator. The
word thriller is also commonly used to designate films of this type, although
there are subtle differences.
• Terror - made with the
intention of provoking tension, fear and/or startle in the audience.
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