1. Overview of Film Genres
For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to surface in the 17th century and were then followed by genre painting that came to suggest an image of a "slice of life. Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage, and the most popular genre of the 19th century melodrama was formed. ... It adapted an industrial mass production format, which allowed for movie producers to reuse script formulas, actors, s...
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