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6 days ago · This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment ( film, television, music, and video games ), excluding genres in the visual arts .
5 days ago · A film, also called a movie or a motion picture, is a series of still photographs on film projected onto a screen using light in rapid succession. The optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
1 day ago · War movies offer a unique look at real history, adding weight to the action and exploring ethical questions of violence for mass audiences. Influential war films like Sergeant York and Paths of Glory challenge propaganda and bureaucracy in wartime narratives, advancing the genre. Movies like The Hurt Locker and Come and See reframe modern ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Many film genres have existed since the earliest years of cinema: the action film, biopic, melodrama, and social problem film, to name only a handful (see early cinema; silent cinema); while others are newer: the chick flick, extreme cinema, machinima, for example.
5 days ago · Most genres can be defined by their subject matter or setting—e.g., the western, the gangster film, the police thriller, the science-fiction film, or the social problem film. Others are classified according to the type of narrative form they exhibit.
Jun 26, 2024 · film noir, style of filmmaking characterized by such elements as cynical heroes, stark lighting effects, frequent use of flashbacks, intricate plots, and an underlying existentialist philosophy. The genre was prevalent mostly in American crime dramas of the post- World War II era.
Jul 9, 2024 · A film genre or mode of considerable variety, range, and commercial success that appears in every national cinema and is defined by the type of response it elicits from its audience, namely, laughter; and is marked by a lightness of tone and a resolution governed by harmony, reconciliation, and happiness.
