1. Overview of Film Genres
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. ... In comedies in which central characters are often defined by distinctive physical characteristics, narrative emphasizes episodes more the plot continuity and theatrical acting styles in which characters physically and playfully interact with the mise-en-scene. The character in a western is usually always a male and their physical and mental toughness separ...
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