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Adventure Genre:
ADVENTURE FILMS
Adventure Genre:
WESTERNS



Adventure Genre:
GANGSTER FILMS
Adventure Genre:
FILM NOIR
Adventure Genre:
WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILMS
Adventure Genres:
MYSTERY
Comedy Genres:
SCREWBALL COMEDY
Comedy Genres:
FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Comedy Genre:
POPULIST COMEDY
Comedy Genre:
PARODY
Comedy Genre:
BLACK HUMOR
Comedy Genre:
CLOWN COMEDY
The Fantastic:
HORROR FILMS
The Fantastic:
SCIENCE FICTION
The Fantastic:
FANTASY
Songs and Soaps:
MUSICALS
Songs and Soaps:
MELODRAMAS
Non-Traditional Genres:
SOCIAL PROBLEM
FILMS


in the United States
in South Africa
Non-traditional Genres:
BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS
Non-traditional Genres:
THE ART FILM


* * * See: Film Settings by Continents


Film Genres - Dewey 791.4


Adventure Genre: ADVENTURE FILMS



Adventure Genre: THE WESTERN




Adventure Genre: THE GANGSTER FILM




Adventure Genre: FILM NOIR

Film noir - - "Term used to describe those Hollywood films of the 40s and 50s which portrayed the dark and gloomy underworld of crime and corruption, films whose heroes as well as villains are cynical, disillusioned, and often insecure loners, inextricably bound to the past and unsure of apathetic about the future. In style and technique, there are night scenes and lighting that emphasizes deep shadows emphasizing fatalism. Dark tones, tense nervousness, doom-laden compositions and camera angles." Film Encyclopedia, Third Edition - page 456.


Adventure Genre: WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILMS



Adventure Genre: MYSTERY



Comedy Genres: SCREWBALL COMEDY



Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS



Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY



Comedy Genres: PARODY



Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR



Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY



The Fantastic: HORROR FILMS



The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION



The Fantastic: FANTASY



Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS



Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS



Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS



Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS



Non-traditional Genres: THE ART FILM


Resources:
Handbook of American Film Genres edited by Wes D. Gehring, printed by Greenwood Press, 1988.
American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pflaum Publishing, 1974.
Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale, Routledge, 2000.
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, & the Studio System edited by Thomas Schatz, Temple University Press, 1981.



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