GENRE ANALYSIS

BROADCAST CRITIQUE (BRO551) FULL HOUSE (1994) VS THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE OF ASHLEY GARCIA (2020) Generally, genre is a style or category of art, music, or literature. A film genre is a motion-picture category based on (this is only for example) similarities either in the narrative elements or in tye emotional response to the film like serious, comic, and many more. Most theories of film genre borrow from literary-genre criticism. Each film genre is associated with "conventions, iconography, settings, narratives, characters and actors". Standard genre characters vary according to the film genre; for film noir, for example, standard characters include the femme fatale and the "hardboiled" detective; a Western film may portray the schoolmarm and the gunfighter. Some actors acquire a reputation linked to a single genre, such as John Wayne (the Western) or Fred Astaire (the musical). A film's genre will influence the use of filmmaking style