Cinema ClubMission
The mission is to enhance visual literacy skills through film exploration. ResourcesGenres
Horror Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Get Out Us Nosferatu Nope Mystery Mystery is a genre that involves a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. Thrillers and suspense movies are known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Get Out Us Nope Thriller Thrillers and suspense movies are known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Get Out Us Fantasy Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Nosferatu Science Fiction Science Fiction films are often quasi-scientific, visionary, and imaginative. They include heroes, aliens, distant planets, quests, fantastic places, new technology, or extraordinary monsters. Nope Crime Crime films feature the sinister actions of criminals, mobsters, bank robbers, underworld figures, and ruthless hoodlums. They operate outside the law and morality of society. Action Characteristics of action films include high energy, physical stunts and chases, rescues, battles, fights, and escapes. It also includes races against time, non-stop motion, fast rhythm, and pacing. Comedy Comedies are light-hearted plots deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerating the situation, language, action, relationships, and characters. Adventure Adventure films are exciting stories with new experiences or exotic locales. Sports Dramatic sports films have a sports setting, arena, a competitive event, and an athlete that are central and predominant in the story. Animation Animated films are characterized by individual drawings, paintings, or illustrations that are photographed frame by frame. Musical Musicals/dance films are cinematic forms that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song, or choreography. Romance Romance films are love stories or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and affectionate involvement of the main characters. Family Family - Oriented films are non-offensive, wholesome, and entertaining. Documentary Documentaries are non-fictional works of art. War War and Anti-War Films often acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting or conflict (against nations or humankind) provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. History The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Western Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the borderline between civilization and the wilderness). Biography Biography films depict and dramatize the life of an important historical person or group from the past or present era. Drama Dramas are serious, plot-driven films, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Music A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Music can be divided into different genres in many different ways. |