For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. ... Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. ... Giving a film a genre can be very daunting, as there are many different hybrid genres and subgenres, but the book focuses on six different groupings of films that are generally defined as genres: comedies, westerns, melodramas, musicals, horror films and crime films....

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The Babadook is an Australian horror movie directed by Jennifer Kent. ... The film takes a dark turn as a supernatural being from a horror story she read to her son, 'The Babadook,' begins to plague her. ... The only contact the two have within the first few minutes of the film is within a sequence where Samuel is terrified of 'monsters' in his bedroom and therefore Amelia has to check in the closet and under the bed for them, he is shown to be clinging to her, however she does not touch him back. ... The colour theme throughout the movie plays a large role in many ways...

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