Much Ado About Nothing: A Genre Analysis

There are different kinds of genres that they have been developed throughout the history of film, and some of them are genres found on stories or from literatures content with “an easily identifiable formulas, character types, and iconography” (Goodykoontz, 2014chapter4.1) But, the type of genre of the feature-length film “Much Ado about Nothing” (2012) by Kai Cole and Joss Whedon, is an example of a movie that crosses genres like comedy, drama, or the mayor genre comedy/ romance because such categories as comedy, and drama are “broader than what the term genre typically refers to” (Goodykoontz, 2014chapter4.1). However, under these crosses genders there are a series of comic and tragic events in this movie that are categorized by another

In the article “Much Ado About Nothing” the author express, “this is where the importance of Whedon's prologue kicks in-by showing Beatrice and Benedick as a couple breaking apart, Much Ado becomes, in effect, a comedy of remarriage”(O'Donoghue, 2013). The fact remains that humans tend to use appropriateness classification for several thing and that's precisely what genre is, “even if the criteria for defining different genres may be unrelated and many films blend several genres” (Goodykoontz, 2014chapter4.1). For that reason, genres are extremely important because labeling a film is how the audience can categorize the films they prefer to watch, and creating automatically certain assumption in viewers (Goodykoontz, 2014chapter4.1). This kind of film has been used by studios to market movies and they are in differ degrees on how studios classify the films they create. Indeed, genre films are main candidates to study to show meaning far deeper than the surface stories.The conventions and attributes of this film genre whish are having been