Film genre is an important factor for film-makers and audiences. Films are categorised by genre at every stage from the screenwriter to store. A lot of study has been conducted into the categorisation of film and how it informs our understanding of the film as text. There is a lot of commercial interest in the way people classify and choose to watch movies.
There are two approaches to the study of film genre.
Descriptive:
Involves viewing a film as belonging to a category. It is perceived as sharing aspects and attributes with other films in the same category.
Functional:
Where the genre film is perceived as "collective expressions’’ of contemporary. The repetitions of patterns in a genre film are the repetitions of social questioning that must be repeated from generation to generation, as values change.
A combination of these two is whereby a film is considered as both part of a paradigmatic set, and as the product of a time and place.
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