Film genres typically promise familiarity, comfort, a guarantee to meet the audience’s expectations. A comedy implies jokes and romance hints …
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Murder, armed robbery, conspiracy, betrayal; the crime genre has brought us some of cinema’s most ruthless villains and enigmatic heroes. …
Whether shouting at the heroes or jumping out of your skin, the horror movie is king when eliciting a visceral …
The term film noir was coined in the late 1940s by French critic Nino Frank, but it wasn’t adopted by …
Sci-Fi has always been a genre of adventure and excitement, a place to break new ground, both in storytelling and …
Documentary theorists have often been troubled by the convention of a documentary being a mimic or representation of reality. It …
Satire can be categorised as humour based on irony and exaggeration of vices, mistakes and opinions. Usually being a take …
Once upon a Time. . . four simple words which immediately conjure a whole host of possibilities and eventualities in …
Fantasy remains one of the great cornerstones in storytelling, from literature to modern cinema, and stands out as cinema’s most …
