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Intro to Genres (page 3)
Morgan Paar is Videomaker's Technical Editor.
Sidebars: Subgenres
Drama
- Melodramas: tearjerkers; The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang, 1993)
- Epics: past events with extravagance; Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
- Biography: films of important people; A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
- Romance: love and their obstacles; When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
Comedy
- Slapstick: visual, physical comedy; Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, 1994)
- Verbal: humor delivered via dialog; A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
- Screwball: farce, slapstick and witty dialogue; Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
- Black/Dark Comedy sarcastic, pessimistic and/or mocking; Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
- Parody/Spoof lampooned imitations; Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)/li>
Crime/Gangster
- Film Noir: cynical loner hero in a bleak city; Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
- Gangsta: urban minority gangsters; Boyz in the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
- Detective/Mystery suspenseful who-dun-its; Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Action/Adventure
- Swashbuckler: pirate films; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Martial Arts: Bruce Lee led genre; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
- Spy: James Bond and Austin Powers genre; Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996)
- Disaster Films: insurmountable man-made and natural challenge; The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen, 2000)
- Blaxploitation: 70's era Black stereotype films; Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr., (Gore Verbinski, 2003)1972)
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