The Reinvention of Genre in Filmmaking
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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Genre Theory
Before you can master film present, you need to know about film past!
Learn everything you need to know about Film in this section. In Genre Theory, we dissect your favourite genre — drama, horror, sci-fi you name it! — and offer notes for a better understanding of their codes and conventions. We also cover auteur theory in the Auteur Series of articles here.
In addition, budding filmmakers can also appreciate our Film 101s sub-section and the Useful Links recommendations. We love to hear from you. Let us know what you think of the website with feedback in the comments section or communicate with us personally via email.
Genre Theory: Crime/Thriller
Murder, armed robbery, conspiracy, betrayal; the crime genre has brought us some of cinema’s most ruthless villains and enigmatic heroes. …
The History of Blaxploitation Cinema
In the early 1970s, blaxploitation (or blacksploitation) became a popular subgenre of film emerging from the US. Uniquely, these films …
Genre Theory: Horror
Whether shouting at the heroes or jumping out of your skin, the horror movie is king when eliciting a visceral …
GENRE: Film Noir
The term film noir was coined in the late 1940s by French critic Nino Frank, but it wasn’t adopted by …
GENRE: Science Fiction
Sci-Fi has always been a genre of adventure and excitement, a place to break new ground, both in storytelling and …
