Genre Essays

Documentary is a program or genre that presents a real-life subject in a ‘first-hand’ format. Some documentaries function as investigations that aim to uncover the truth about political, medical, and other issues. The Investigative Documentary genre is particularly intriguing because it relies on factual information and footage, much like a typical documentary. Crimewatch UK is […]

As a practical production I will be producing a movie trailer and I will be working in a pair. We will be producing multi-generic movie trailer which includes psychological suspense thriller and mystery and the trailer will be called “Slashed”. As a group we will be sharing the tasks equally so, each person in the […]

Genre is a recognized category of media that audiences associate with common elements, including style, narrative, structure, look, and iconography. However, genres are not limited and evolve over time as new conventions are added. This can result in hybrid genres where two different genres merge together to form a new type of media material; for […]

Cinema has been a part and parcel of our life. We have been entertained by the movies all our life. It is a great means to distress a person and get away from the real world into the reel world. The children of this generation are all professional movie goers. Then there is also the […]

Film Presentation – How significant is the use of supernatural in modern horror?RUN AUDIO: background music from ‘The Ring’ playing for 1 minute 30 seconds. Fading outVISUAL: DVD cover of The Ring, The Others and The Sixth Sense show on screen for first section of presentation.SPEAKER: My aim throughout this presentation is to discover whether […]

One of the most successful British gangster movies of the 20th Century, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, has been celebrated as “a welcome entry into the flailing neo-noir tradition” (Seattle Weekly’s Sean Axmaker). Despite its humorous touch, it raises questions about whether it is a parody of both film-noir and the general crime genre, […]

Research paper genre is a genre that contains different types of essays. It is mostly used by students of all ages in school, or it could be used for a job. And it targets all sorts of different audience. Research paper could be a topic like for example cultural relativism which is an essay that […]

Robert Altman’s Subliminal Reality is written by Robert T. Self, an English professor at Northern Illinois. Self gives the most extensive evaluation of Altman’s work and its value to the industry and the American culture. In Subliminal Reality, Self talks about Altman’s unconventional approach to cinema and its effect on the subconscious mind of the […]

My goal with the trailer was to clearly communicate to viewers that my film falls within the horror genre. My aim was to promote it specifically to viewers over the age of 18, who were my target audience. My intention was to promote my horror film by showing it at the beginning of another horror […]

Genre is a very important concept in film studies. A genre is a type of film. Genre is very important because it helps us to compare similar films and see patterns and similarities between them. It also helps audiences by classifying films, giving them a list of what they can expect to see in a […]

Run Lola Run is a film in which a young woman (Lola) is given the task of recovering 100,000DM for her boyfriend in a twenty-minute period. If she fails to recover the one hundred thousand in time, her boyfriend fears the mobster will kill him he owes the money to from a robbery. The film […]

Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissor Hands are both created by director Tim Burton, who has recently directed the film Big Fish. The two films were made back in the last millennium, Edward Scissor Hands in 1990 and Sleepy Hollow in 1999. Both films include the girls favourite Mr.Johnny Depp, also Sleepy Hollow includes the legends […]

Rush Hour 2 (2001), directed by Brett Ratner, is an action adventure which follows on from its prequel. Our on screen duos are back in the heat; with international superstar, Jackie Chan and loud mouth comedian, Chris Tucker. The film is of US origin and made around $90 million altogether. The prequel had made a […]

With reference to horror film and texts from the sub-genre vampires, particularly those dealing with the Dracula story, are interesting to investigating how the horror genre has changed over time, because of their lasting popularity but changing appeal. From an industrial perspective genre emerged from studio system’s dual need for standardisation and differentiation. These are […]

Trailers are an integral part of the film industry in modern day. We see film trailers every day when we watch television or venture out to see a film at the cinema and are instantly interested to see the latest releases. They promote films to the public in order to entice them and attract their […]

The concept of genre is useful in looking at ways in which media texts are organised, categorised and consumed. It is applied to television, print and radio texts s well as film. The concept of genre suggests that there are certain types of media material, often story-types, which are recognised through common element, such as […]

The Oscar winning film “A Close Shave”, a creation of Aardman Productions and produced by Nick Parks, has universal appeal. It is unique in it’s genre, displaying a wide range of different types of genre at different points in the film. It combines a variety of cinematographic and animation techniques. The characters in the film […]

Those movies categorized under the Slacker genre break away from conventional Hollywood style in many respects. The very term ‘Slacker’ is taken after a Richard Linklater movie of the same name released in 1991. Made as an experimental project, the film became a cult classic and impressed the critics as well. It is not often […]

The purpose of this essay is to analyse the western genre within a set of selected frameworks, to do so I will be comparing and contrasting two films that come under the western genre category and were released nearly seventy years apart, the 1939 classic Stagecoach, from director John Ford and the 2005 hybrid western […]

In recent years, movie class plays a more and more important role in English teaching in China. Most teachers require students to write movie reviews after watching the movie. However, how to write movie review is still remain unclear to students. Some student download a review from the internet, and some write a summary of […]

‘Writers often experiment with narrative devices and structures in order to challenge readers’ expectations of genre and their view of the outside world’ Compare and contrast your two texts in light of this comment Genre is generally defined as a category of composition, characterized by a number of similarities in form, style or subject matter. […]

Most people who come across the term genre take it to mean ‘type’ films at first sight are easily sorted into types horror movies, musical, western etc. A example of this could be taken from a western, we can list all the features that make up this genre men in Stetsons, women in long skirts, […]