Think of a war film, with the guys gathered in their tent, or in their tank, or in their trench, the night before the battle. Think of a musical – brightly coloured, all the characters leaping in unison, with outstretched arms.
Genres have visually distinct locations, situations, costumes, character types.
You can usually identify a film’s genre just by looking at stills from it. War films, Westerns, martial arts movies, gangster movies, these can all be called genres. There are too many kinds of action film, distinctly different from each other. Not just any type - the category cannot be too broad, for example, “action” isn’t a film genre. What is a genre? A type of story, or book, or television drama - and in our case, narrative film.
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