<p class="">A <strong>film genre</strong> is a motion-picture category based (for example) on similarities either in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">narrative elements</a> or in the emotional response to the film (namely: serious, comic, etc.). Most theories of film genre are borrowed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">literary-genre</a> criticism. Each film genre is associated with "conventions, iconography, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_setting" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">settings</a>, narratives, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_character" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">characters</a> and actors". Standard genre characters vary according to the film genre; for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">film noir</a>, standard characters are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">femme fatale</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardboiled_detective" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">"hardboiled" detective</a>; a Western film may portray the schoolmarm and the gunfighter. Some actors acquire a reputation linked to a single genre, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">John Wayne</a> (the Western) or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Fred Astaire</a> (the musical). A film's genre will influence the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">filmmaking</a> styles and techniques, such as the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_(narrative)" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">flashbacks</a> and low-key lighting in film noir, tight framing in horror films, fonts that look like rough-hewn logs for the titles of Western films, or the "scrawled" title-font and credits of <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Se7en</a></em> (1995), a film about a serial killer. As well, genres have associated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_scoring" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">film-scoring</a> conventions, such as lush string orchestras for romantic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">melodramas</a> or electronic music for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction_film" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">science-fiction films</a>. - Wikipedia</p>
