Read the text and answer the questions below. Film Genres are categories, classifications or groups of films that have similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns

Film Genres

Film Genres are categories, classifications or groups of films that have similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns, techniques or conventions that include one or more of the following: setting, content, themes, plot, motifs, styles, structures, situations, characters (or characterizations), and stars. The main genres are the western, crime (gangster), horror, the musical, science fiction and comedy. Other genre categories include action/adventure, thrillers epics (costume dramas), war movies, and the women's picture (melodrama). By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure films (from swashbucklers to war movies). Musicals were inaugurated with the era of the Talkies, and the genre of science-fiction films wasn't generally popularized until the 1950s.

All films have at least one major genre, although there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four overlapping genre types that identify them.

Examples of sub-genres abound: aviation films, biographical films, buddy films, caper films, chase films, disaster films, documentary films, espionage films, experimental films, "fallen" woman films, jungle films, legal films, martial arts films, medical films, military films, parody films, police films, political films, prison films, religious films, road films, slasher films, sports films, swashbucklers, women's "weeper" films and more. Examples of different forms or types of film include: animations, features, serials, or shorts among others.

Certain directors (and actors) are known for certain types of films, for example, Woody Allen and comedy, Alfred Hitchcock for suspense and thrillers, John Ford with westerns, or Errol Flynn for classic swashbuckler adventure films.

1. What are film genres?
2. What are the main film genres?
3. When were the main genres established?
4. Do all films have only one major genre

Topical Vocabulary

Genres Жанри

Feature film художній фільм

action adventure пригодницький фільм

cartoon мультфільм

A-picture фільм 1 -ої категорії

B-picture фільм 2-ої категорії

musical мюзікл

blaxploitation експлуатація "чорної" теми

sexploitation експлуатація сексуальної теми

thriller, chiller, shocker фільм жахів

horror film, slasher фільм жахів

cowboy picture, western вестерн ковбойський (теле)фільм,

detective детектив

documentary документальне кіно

epic епічний твір

film noir "чорне" кіно

gangster film бойовик

melodrama, tearjerker мелодрама

women's picture мелодрама

women's "weeper" film мелодрама

newsreel фільм-хроніка

prequel попередня серія

sequel продовження

remake рімейк фільма

sci-fi наукова фантастика

screwball comedy ексцентрична комедія

romantic comedy романтична комедія

parody film фільм-пародія

crash-&-burn бойовик з великою кількістю вибухів

independent незалежне кіно

art-film незалежне кіно

experimental незалежне кіно

serial серіал

silent німе кіно

travel-film, travelogue фільм про подорожі

disaster film фільм-катастрофа

whodunit детективний роман, фільм

buddy picture фільм про друзів

biographical біографічний фільм

teen picture фільм про/для підлітків

shoot'-em up бойовик

adult film, X-rated film фільм для дорослих

caper film трюковий пригодницький фільм

educational film навчальний фільм

instructional film навчальний фільм

training film навчальний фільм

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