For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. ... Film Genres are made up of many elements with the most dominant dimensions Conventions, Formulas, and Expectation, which are uses to identify certain genres and distinguish them from others. Conventions are the properties or features that identify a genre, Formulas are the patterns for developing stories in a particular genre, and Expectations describe a v...

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