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. ... 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. ...
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