TYPES OF GENRE.

HORRORS.Horror movies bring out the fear in people and gets your adrenalin going, they are made to try and frighten you, horror movie settings are mostly based in dark and mysterious places.

WESTERN.

Western movies are all about guns, horses, cowboys, hats, mountains, deserts, Indians, gunfighters, ‘taming the west’ these types of movies make you want to carry on watching and find out more about these times.

Genre can be flexible, you can get genre hybrids, Example is Terminator 2 I know this is science fiction because the Terminator is indestructible, also you can see when he scans things, he also teleports into the beginning, the

action is when he beats up the people that start on him.Genre is a system of signs/symbols/themes by which a

particular genre can be recognised, e.g- the western= cow boy hats, guns, horses, mountains or desert, indians,

cowboys, gunfighter, taming the west.Genre= a contact between the audience and film makers,

audiences build up generic memory and can anticipate things happening, so the director can play on this.

GENRE.