... function as cultural rituals in which rituals are both formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety of situations. Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting ... a "slice of life. Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage, and the most popular genre of the 19th century melodrama was formed. Through the creation of th...

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