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2. Film genre - Wikipedia

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   One can also classify films by the tone, theme/topic, mood, format, target audience, or budget. [4] These characteristics are most evident in genre films, which are "commercial feature films [that], through repetition and variation, tell familiar stories with familiar characters and familiar situations" in a given genre. [5]

3. List of genres - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.

4. Thriller (genre) - Wikipedia

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   The list goes on and on, with new variations constantly being invented. In fact, this openness to expansion is one of the genre's most enduring characteristics. But what gives the variety of thrillers a common ground is the intensity of emotions they create, particularly those of apprehension and exhilaration, of excitement and breathlessness ...

5. Action film - Wikipedia

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   In the Journal of Film and Video, Lennart Soberson stated that the action film genre has been a subject of scholarly debate since the 1980s. [3] Soberson wrote that repeated traits of the genre include chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work while other scholars asserted there were more underlying traits that define the genre. [3]

6. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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   According to Eric R. Williams, the hallmark of fantasy drama films is "a sense of wonderment, typically played out in a visually intense world inhabited by mythic creatures, magic or superhuman characters. Props and costumes within these films often belie a sense of mythology and folklore – whether ancient, futuristic, or other-worldly.

7. Film styles - Wikipedia

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   Film style categorizes films based on the techniques used in the making of the film, such as cinematography or lighting. Two films may be from the same genre, but may well look different as a result of the film style. For example, Independence Day and Cloverfield are both sci-fi, action

8. Classical Hollywood cinema - Wikipedia

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   Films worldwide began to noticeably adopt visual and narrative elements which would be found in classical Hollywood cinema. 1913 was a particularly fruitful year for the medium, as pioneering directors from several countries produced films such as The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), and L'enfant de Paris ...

9. Lists of films - Wikipedia

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   List of films considered the best; List of films considered the worst; List of films shown at Butt-Numb-A-Thon; List of films shown at the New York Film Festival; List of films shown at the Sundance Film Festival; List of films spoofed by Mad; List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes