Film Genres

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This paper examines film genres and indicates that they cannot be clearly identified to the exclusion of all other possibilities because genres overlap and intermix. The paper explains that genres are identified by plot elements, style of presentation, and tone, and many genres include several sub-genres identifying different plot types within the more general category. Several different movies are described in relation to their genres. The paper claims that intermixing genres and sub-genres keeps the art of film fresh and can produce entirely new genres.

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"Film genres are as often as not selling tools, ways of identifying the type of film offered to a potential audience. Yet, there are different genres in any art which involve repeated patterns of plot and tone. Film genres are differentiated according to plot and style, and there are many ways genres can overlap. A film can be identified as a mystery if it contains the elements of a mystery--a crime, a puzzle to be solved, suspects, a detective--but a film can have all these elements and be a comedy, using the mystery elements in a comic framework."

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