Genre
Genre is a French word that means
type or kind. Most people will be aware of genre as a way of putting films,
television programmes and other media texts into groups that share similar
characteristics, such as the story, or the characters, the settings and even
the way the characters dress. This makes films much more accessible for us as
an audience as we are able to identify and spot such characteristics and
therefore enables us to have more control over what we watch and what we enjoy
to watch.
But this is not the only way in
which genre aids us as an audience, genre helps us build up expectations about
a film. As an audience we have certain assumptions and expectations about the
movies we see and due to this, movies can become rather repetitive and thus
become boring so as an audience we crave change, and evolve by responding to
contextual influences to do with the way society changes. This can be achieved
through Hybrid or Mixed Genres; these are very popular, as producers think that
by mixing say the thriller genre with the action genre they will find the
traditional audiences for both genres.
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