Movie Genre Research

                                          Movie genres.

The history of film is the historical development of the medium known variously as cinema, motion pictures, film, or the movies.

The history of films spans over 100 years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century and into the 21st century. Motion picture films have substantially affected the arts, technology, and politics.

Everyone has their own movie preferences. There are people who love the hard core action and there are some who prefer the slow paced drama and romantic movies. Many people may be turned off by a movie because of the Genre It’s in. A genre is a categorization of certain types of art based upon their style, form, or content. Genre is a very important component of a film, because it defines which direction the plot line will go and allows you to prepare yourself for that film. Even though video stores use about eight to fifteen genres to categorize their films, there are about five main genres that are big and popular.

There are different types of movie genres out there are: Action, thriller, horror, comedy, kids, musical, wars, drama, teen and romance.

In this essay will be focusing on just 5genres which will be: Romance, Action and horror, Comedy,

Action movies are most 0f the time fast paced.  The story line always has to do with one or more heroes that are thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases. They occasionally have a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds such as: life-threatening situations, an evil villain, and/or being chased in several ways of transportation (car, bus, truck, etc.) with victory achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence. This keeps the audience awake and excited with their nonstop action sequences. They are usually filled with fast paced chases, explosions, fighting, numerous stunts, and special effects. The Action movies are usually intended to entertain male audiences from the ages of 13 to the mid-30s. Examples of Action movies are: Dark knight, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kings, Inception, the Matrix.

Romance is a genre that has been going on since the 1890s. Romantic movies are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. Occasionally, lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, racial, social class status, or sexual orientation discrimination, psychological restraints or family that threaten to break their union of love. Casablanca, Forest Gump, City Lights, Valentine’s Day.

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewers. Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its audience; it gives them the feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror. The Thing, Alien, The shinning.

Comedy movies are emphasized mostly on humor, they are made to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedy films are mainly light-hearted Drama that is made to amuse and entertain the audience. Comedy movies are considered the oldest film genre and the most popular.  Examples of comedy films are: : I love you Philip Morris, You Again.