Film Genres
I INTRODUCTION
Film Genres, categories of film characterized by frequently recurring patterns of form, style, and, particularly, subject matter. There is no clear consensus among film historians and critics on the number of genres, or on the line of demarcation between one genre and another. This must be borne in mind when considering the following list of major genres: Adventure; Biography; Comedy; Drama and Melodrama; Fantasy/Horror/Science Fiction; Gangster/Crime/Spy/Film Noir; Musical; Problem Picture; War; Western. Some commentators would argue that the category “Gangster/Crime/Spy/Film Noir” clearly incorporates two, if not more, distinct genres, as it could be seen to include films as diverse as The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) and Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950). Similarly, the old instry category “Women's Pics” straddles at least two classifications: Film Noir and Melodrama. Only the Hollywood cinema has been considered. Obviously, genres exist in the popular cinemas of other countries, although, apart from such clear-cut exceptions as samurai films of Japan or kung fu pictures from Hong Kong, the categories applied are normally derived from Hollywood. Clearly there are interesting differences between, say, a British crime film and an American example, but on the whole these have yet to be studied. Differences between genres tend to be identified more in terms of themes, stars, use of costumes, and settings and locations, than in terms of specific aspects of film-making practice such as editing.
II HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
In the days of the studio proction lines, placement of films within genres tended to be part of the thinking of studio executives in their decisions about proction and marketing policy, and were reiterated in the trade papers. Thus, notions about many film genres actually preceded explicit critical analysis. While critical accounts of a film genre tend, appropriately, to be descriptive, the same ideas in the mind of a procer or accountant are often prescriptive, based on a notion of what audiences will find acceptable in, say, a Western.
When critics started to analyse Hollywood films in depth, this link with the collective, entertainment, money-making aspect of the proction system, rather than its initially unrecognized personal, artistic dimension, contributed to an emphasis on the negative aspects of the genres, for example, the limits their conventions imposed on creativity. However, as Colin McArthur argued in his pioneering genre study Underworld USA (1972): “the responses of film-makers and audiences to the genres seem to offer a good prime facie case for believing that they are animating rather than neutral, that they carry particular charges of meaning independently of whatever is brought to them by particular directors.”
Certainly, it seems unlikely to be coincidence that much of the finest work of Howard Hawks, John Ford, Anthony Mann, and, more recently Clint Eastwood, has been in the Western genre. Nevertheless, only minor or mediocre directors can be said to be defined by their relationship to a genre, and each of the four cited has inflected the genre in significantly different ways, both stylistically and thematically, as well as having done important work in other genres.
III DEVELOPMENT OF GENRES
Clearly film genres change over time as society, the audience, and the institutions of proction change. New stars come along, new themes emerge, new conventions of characterization evolve. The exact nature of these shifts is largely outside the conscious awareness of those responsible for bringing them about, however. The procer, director, writer, and star tend to think in terms of decisions that will make a work more interesting, or generate a more compelling star role, rather than how to modify the genre in response to shifts in society.
Some points relating the development of particular genres to changes in film technology are simple and obvious: there is nothing incongruous about a silent Western, and the genre has been on the screen since The Great Train Robbery (1903, directed by Edwin S. Porter), but the idea of a silent musical is obviously ridiculous, despite the fact that live musical accompaniment ensured that most cinemas were never really silent. Similarly, continually improving techniques for special effects have given new life to the Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror genre, from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) on through Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977) to the cycle of Alien films (Ridley Scott, 1979; James Cameron, 1986; David Fincher, 1992).
Popular films are not a simple reflection of the society that proced them: they are complex texts, systems of discourse certain strands of which bear traces of particular features of the society that generated them. Exactly what mechanisms are involved, however, varies from case to case, and may often be impossible to tease out. Thus, comparisons made between characteristics of the indivial genres, or between one era and another, must be provisional and tentative.
For example, in the 1930s, the great period of the gangster film, there were few major Westerns, and those there were came at the start and end of the decade. In the era of classic Hollywood cinema (from the late 1920s to the decline of the studio system around 1960) both these genres regularly involved conflicts between good and evil.
However, perhaps because part of the gangster film's concern was to indicate the social origins of crime, it is typically the gangster's journey the audience follows, and thus there is strong, if only partial, identification with him. His refusal to accept the restrictions of the urban environment, together with the energy of his indivialism, made him a dangerously fascinating, possibly sympathetic, character when contrasted with the less colourful representatives of law and order.
Indeed, this patina of charisma has persisted through to the present. It is part of the complex appeal of The Godfather series (Francis Ford Coppola: Part I, 1972; Part II, 1974; Part III, 1990), inviting the audience to collude with the actions of Michael Corleone. In the more pastoral world of the classic Western, on the other hand, the hero may have been a loner, but he normally represented the best values of the community. Moreover, it was his progress the audience followed, and thus it was he with whom it identified. Consequently, he was the one with charisma, rather than the villain, whose ultimate defeat and death were not mourned in the same way as the classic gangster's.
Though attempts to specify precisely where Western and gangster genres fit in an overall account of the generic categories of popular cinema are likely to generate academic controversy, all commentators agree on their existence as genres. This makes them appropriate choices for the accounts of generic difference and change given above. Though much has been left out, this is an example of the kind of analysis that can be made in relation to other genres.
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Ⅲ 用英文说,电影的类型,例如comedy
外国一般如下表达电影类型,来源于外国权威电影网站,自己做了翻译:
Action 动作片
Adventure 冒险片
Animation 动画片
Biography 传记片
Comedy 喜剧片
Crime 犯罪片
Documentary 纪录片
Drama 戏剧(文艺)片
Family 生活片
Fantasy 奇幻片
Film-Noir 黑色电影(不是黑白电影,是指情节黑色)
Game-Show 游戏秀节目
History 历史片
Horror 恐怖片
Musical 音乐片
Mystery 悬疑片
News 新闻片
Reality-TV 电视真人秀
Romance 爱情片
Sci-Fi 科幻片
Sport 体育片
Talk-Show 脱口秀
Thriller 惊悚片
War 战争片
Western 西部片
就是这么多,楼上提到的悲剧,是属于Drama这一类型,并没有单独的悲剧这一项目的。
Ⅳ 各种类型电影的英文名是
1.动作电影:Action Films
是以强烈紧张的惊险动作和视听张力为核心的影片类型。具备巨大的冲击力、持续的高效动能、一系列外在惊险动作和事件为主要元素的影片。
2.奇幻电影:Fantasy Film
这类型的电影都大量的包含魔法、超自然现实事件、或是幻想生物如龙、半兽人以及幻想世界如魔戒中的中土。
3.喜剧电影:Comedy film
主要艺术手段是发掘生活中的可笑现象,作夸张的处理,达到真实和夸张的统一。其目的是通过笑来颂扬美好、进步的事物或理想,讽刺或嘲笑落后现象,在笑声中娱乐和教育观众。
4.科幻电影:science fiction film
科幻片所采用的科学理论并不一定被主流科学界接受,例如外星生命、外星球、超能力或时间旅行等等。科幻电影常常使用可能的未来世界作为故事背景,用宇宙飞船、机器人或其他超越时代的科技等元素彰显与现实之间的差异。
5.动画电影:Animation Movie
动画电影是指以动画形式制作的大型电影。通常我们所说的动画电影包括剧场版,OVA。但是严格意义上的动画电影与剧场版电影动画不同的是动画电影故事取材并不是由动画剧或OVA中取材。从动画剧或OVA取材的称为剧场版或电影动画。
Ⅳ 电影有哪几种类型,(*英文的)
喜剧/Comedy
冒险/Adventure
幻想/Fantasy
悬念/Mystery
惊悚/Thriller
记录/Documentary
战争/War
西部/Western
爱情/Romance
剧情/Drama
恐怖/Horror
动作/Action
科幻/Sci-Fi
音乐/Music
家庭/Music
犯罪/Crime
成人/Alt
Ⅵ 十种不同类型电影的英文定义 就是用很长的话来解释那十种电影类型
1、“鬼怪屋”型(Monster in the House)
2、“金羊毛”型( Golden Fleece)
3、“如愿以偿”型( Out of the Bottle)
4、“麻烦家伙”型( Dude with a Problem)
5、“变迁仪式”型( Rites of Passage)
6、“伙伴之情”型( Buddy Love)
7、“推理侦探”型( Whynit)
8、“愚者成功”型( The Fool Triumphant)
9、“被制度化”型( Institutionalized)
9、“被制度化”型( Institutionalized)
出自《救猫咪》
Ⅶ 有什么可学习推荐英文的电影
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Ⅷ 如何用英语表达不同的电影类型
主要类型的电影可以用英语这样表达:
1、喜剧:Comedy
2、冒险:Adventure
3、幻想:Fantasy
4、悬念:Mystery
5、惊悚:Thriller
6、战争:War
7、西部:Western
8、爱情:Romance
9、恐怖:Horror
10、动作:Action
11、科幻:Sci-Fi
12、犯罪:Crime
(8)英文电影什么类型的居多扩展阅读:
所谓类型电影,是指由于不同题材或技巧而形成的影片范畴、种类或形式。按照不同类型 (或称样式)的规定要求制作出来的影片。其具有基本特征:公式化的情节,定型化的人物,图解式的视觉影像。主要类型影片有喜剧片、西部片、罪片、幻想片等。
类型电影的制作根据观众的心理特点,在一定时期内以某一类型作为制作重点,即采取所谓"热潮更替"方式。在人们厌烦了西部片之后,便换上恐怖片,然后再继之以其他类型影片,如此周转不息,反复轮换。在诸多的影片类型中,最有典型性的是四个类型,即喜剧片、西部片、犯罪片、幻想片。
类型电影作为一种拍片方法,实质上是一种艺术产品标准化的规范。它的规定性和对影片创作者的强制力,只有在以制片人专权为特点的大制片厂制度下才有可能发生作用。因此,随着大制片厂制度在五十年代以后的逐渐解体,各种类型之间的严格界线趋于模糊,愈来愈成为一般意义上的样式划分了。
Ⅸ 电影种类的英文说法
故事片/剧情片
Fiction/Feature
Film
纪录片
Documentary
Film
剧情纪录片
Docudrama
Film
新闻纪录影片
Newsreel
Film
动画片
Animation
Film
音乐歌舞片
Musical
Film
戏曲片
Chinese
Opera
舞台艺术片
Stage
Performance
短片
Short
Film
电影片种大概就上面几种
电影类型主要有下面这些
情节片
Drama
喜剧片
Comedy
爱情片
Romantic
动作片
Action
武侠片
Martial
Arts
功夫片
Kung-Fu
战争片
War
悬疑片
Thrill
恐怖片
Horror
神幻片
Fantasy
科幻片
Sci-fi
鬼片
Ghost
贺岁片
New
Year
Celebration
情色片
Erotic
成人片
Alt
应该就这些吧
不知道是不是你要的...
Ⅹ 美国电影有12大类型,我国电影比美国的多了一个什么类型,为什么
冷兵器时代,我是真正的王者。
拥有我的人被称为侠客,走遍天下都不怕;我有一种神奇的力量,至今仍是不解之谜——对,我就是中国功夫!
感谢传奇巨星李小龙把我带到了好莱坞,一系列武打巨制让中国Kungfu闻名世界,英文字典里始有“功夫”一词。
中国功夫的发源地——河南
《易·系辞上》说:“河出图,洛出书,圣人则之。”华夏文明的主体是黄河文明,黄河文明的中心在中原地区,黄河文明的核心在河洛文化圈内。
而我,就诞生在河洛文化圈,中国功夫的发源地——河南。
中国功夫花开两朵,各表一枝。在河南,我有俩孪生兄弟,一个是少林拳(也称少林功夫),一个是太极拳。当然,还有其他许多拳种难以尽述。
来自希腊的彼特在陈家沟学习太极拳
放眼世界,到处都有我的“铁粉”,国际友人希望通过练习中国功夫强身健体,得到神奇的力量,而我从来不会让他们失望。
学中国功夫,请来河南找我。
其实,不管是少林拳,还是太极拳,我都是伴随着祖国的不断强大,追随着中华民族伟大复兴的脚步,才逐渐为世界了解和喜爱。
我为祖国而自豪,祖国以我为骄傲。