Action movies have usually been intended to entertain male audiences from ages 13 to the mid-30's (Dirks, "Action Films" 1). ... The settings range from old haunted houses to dark unknown areas (Dirks, "Horror Films" 1). ... Additional genres, other than the ones described above, include science fiction, fantasy, adventure, suspense, musical, romance, war films, and many more. ... The leading genres in film include the heart pounding action, the terrifying horror, the hilarious comedy, the serious drama, and the old fashioned western....

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The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. ... Although the German film industry was booming, filmmakers found it difficult to create movies because of the hard economic times and because of the big competition with Hollywood. ... The plots and stories of the Expressionist films often dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal, and other "intellectual" topics (as opposed to standard action-adventure and romantic films); the German name for this type of storytelling was called Kammerspielfilm. ... German emigrees such as Karl Freund (the cinematographer for D...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All horror movies employ music to set the mood, create suspense, or even trick the audience into thinking someone is about to get killed. ... Lovett's conveniently located meat pie shop Each time a new generation retells an old story, the storyteller owes a debt to the storytellers of the past, but the story must also shift to meet the desires of the new era The hour-long feature films starring Tod Slaughter as a melodramatic villain and produced by George King, recorded on Vistatone under license from Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., are probably not "great works of ...

• Word Count: 2944
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• Grade Level: High School