What is a genre? Genre is a form of categorizing films or grouping of films and film types. This formula is reproduced again and again for example in a Western we see similar characters, situations and settings. The word genre is originally from French, and it simply means “kind” or “type”. When we speak of film genres, we are indicating certain types of movies. For example, the horror movie, the comedy, the action movie, the road movie, the science fiction movie, the musical and other types of movies. These are some genres of fictional storytelling cinema. Genres are convenient terms that develop informally. Filmmakers, industry decision makers, critics, and viewers all share the sense that certain films resemble one another in significant …show more content…
The meaning of semantic is while there is anything but general agreement on the exact frontier separating semantic from syntactic views, we can as a whole distinguish between generic definitions that depend on a list of common traits, attitudes, character, shows, locations, sets, and the like, thus bring us to very much the visual aspects of the film. Otherwise, the meaning of syntactic is to play up instead constitutive relationships between undesignated and variable placeholders, and bringing us to very much the thematic aspects of the film. The difference between semantic and syntactic definitions is perhaps most apparent in familiar approaches to the western. In passing we might well note the divergent qualities associated with these two approaches. While choosing the semantic approach and you give up explanatory power and it is applicable to a larger number of films. Conversely, choosing the syntactic approach and you do without broad applicability. As a rule, semantic and syntactic approaches to genre have been proposed analyzed, evaluated and disseminated separately, in spite of the complementarity implied by their names. Genre analysis is complementary and it must only be made by combining both components, and in fact that some of the most important questions of genre study can be asked only when they are combined. In short, I propose a semantic and syntactic approach to genre