1. Overview of Film Genres
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. 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. ...
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