FILM GENRES AND CONVENTIONS
Film genres are types of
films such as horror, action , drama, romance and comedy. Different audiences ( e.g boys between 15 and 18, women over
40, fans of romance novels ) will tend
to like different types of film.
There are also hybrid genres ( films which are a fusion of
different genres e.g scifi horror ,
crime comedy )
and subgenres ( different types of film within genres e.g high school comedy)
Conventions are characters,
objects , stories events, settings and themes that you would expect to see in particular film
genres , which are often shown in
film trailers to give the audience an
idea about the content of the film. For
example, conventions of crime films include gangsters, guns, violent scenes, criminal investigations, unhappy endings and revenge.
Genre ?
Conventions?
Horror has its own subgenres and links to other genres such as fantasy, action and thriller.
One subgenre is zombie films .
Genre ?
Conventions?
Horror has its own subgenres and links to other genres such as fantasy, action and thriller.
One subgenre is zombie films .
One subgenre is zombie films . The earliest of these tended to be about people raised from the dead by one evil magician.
The genre changed and started to develop its conventions. These were mainly created by George Romero in his original Dead trilogy of zombie films. Classic films have been remade and conventions are still being altered and added to .
The zombie genre is influenced by other genres and some of its films can be described as hybrid genre films. Here are some examples.
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