ENGL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: B.O.B
25 Jan 2017
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One popular way of grouping fiction films is by genre. Another way films are grouped is based on ideas about how they were made and what effects they attempt to achieve. Documentary films record some aspect of the real world. Experimental films play with film form and conventions in ways that challenge audience expectations and provide unusual emotional and intellectual experiences. Animated films are defined by the way they are made. Drawings, models, or other subjects are presented frame by frame to create illusory movements that never existed in front of the camera. The (cid:449)ord ge(cid:374)re is origi(cid:374)ally fre(cid:374)ch, a(cid:374)d si(cid:373)ply (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)ki(cid:374)d(cid:863) or (cid:862)type(cid:863) Genres also change over time, as filmmakers invent new twists on old formulas. Genre is a category best used to describe and analyze films, not to evaluate them. No genre can be defined in a single hard-and-fast way. Mixing genres is one important source of change in film history.
