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Let's Talk Theory: What is Genre?
General Genre Links
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Anatomy of the Action Picture
Suspenseful Situations: Melodramatic Narrative and the Contemporary Action Film (JSTOR)
Adventure Films
Cinephile: The Superhero Film
Comic Book Film Genre
Beginner's Guide: Marvel Universe
Film and Comics
Action Movies
Call Number: MAD 791.43 OBR
Comedy FIlms
Comedy FIlms for GCSE
Class, Language and American Film COmedy
Learn Film Genre: Comedy
Beginner's Guide: Screwball Comedy
Comedy Tropes
Filmsite: Crime/Gangster
Crime FIlms
Learn Film Genre: Crime
Introduction to the Gangster Film
Crime and Gangster Films
Gangsters
The Golden Age: Classic Gangster Films
Capers and Heists
Crime and Punishment Tropes
BFI Research Guide: Gangsters
How Hollywood fell for disaster movies
Disaster Films
Disaster Tropes
Disaster Film Conventions
Cinema of Catastrophe
Studying Disaster Movies
Call Number: MAD 791.43 SAN
ISBN: 9781903663998
Drama Tropes
Videomaker: The Drama Genre
Script Lab: Drama
Drama Films
Is Drama Really a Genre?
BFI: Television Drama
GCSE: Elements of Drama
FilmSite: Drama
BFI Research Guide: Costume Dramas
Epics/Historical Films
Historical Films
BFI: Costume Dramas
Epic: Rise of a Genre
History by Hollywood
by
Robert Brent Toplin
Call Number: MAD 791.43 TOP
ISBN: 0252076893
Brief History of Horror
Horror Tropes
Videomaker: Horror Genre
The Psychology of Scary Movies
Beginner's Guide: Psychological Horror
Horror Film History
11 Horror Movie Cliches
Cinephile: HOrror Ad Nauseum
Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film
The Horror Film
by
Rick Worland
Call Number: MAD 791.43 WOR
The Horror Film
Call Number: MAD 791.43 HUT
Musicals in Film: A Guide to the GEnre
Film Site: Musicals
Musicals-Dance Films
Musicals
Musical Tropes
Brief History of Musicals on Film
Musicals 101
Musical Genre Convetions
The American Film Musical
Call Number: MAD 791.43 ALT
ISBN: 9780253205148
The Psychology of Scary Movies
Detective / Mystery Films
Elements of the Genre
Thriller/Suspense Films
Patterns of Suspense in Film Narrative
Brief History of the Detective movie
Plot, Character, Setting: A study of mystery and detective fiction
Mystery/Detective Tropes
Thriller Tropes
Suspense/Thriller
Ultimate Filmmakers Guide to Noir
Intro to Film Noir
Beginner's Guide: Film Noir
Origins of Film Noir
BFI Source Guides: Modern Noir
Infographic: Stylistic Elements of Noir
Film Noir Studies
THey Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?
10 Shades of Noir
Cinematic Noir
Noir: The Elusive Genre
TV Tropes: Noir
Intro to Neo-Noir
Where to Begin with Neo-Noir
Basics of Lighting for Noir
Guide to Film Noir
Women in Film Noir
Call Number: MAD 791.43 WOM
Film Noir, the Directors
Call Number: MAD 791.43 FIL
Brief History of Romantic Comedies
Rom-Com Tropes
Romantic Comedy
Routledge: Romantic Comedy
FilmSite: Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi Films
Sci-Fi Movie Reviews
Sci-Fi Vs. Fantasy
Why is SF so hard to define?
100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
Speculative Fiction Tropes
Learn Film Genre: SF
VideoMaker: Science FIcition
FilmSite: Sports FIlms
Martial Arts in the Movies (Documentary)
Sports Tropes
Sport and Film
How to Write Underdog Sports Movies in 10 Easy Steps
The History of Martial Arts Films
The Sports Film
Call Number: MAD 791.43 BAB
Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and 50s Horror Films
The Shakespeare Teen Movie Trend
Teen Film History
Modernism, Cinema, Adolescence: Another History for Teen Film
How to Decode the John Hughes High School Movies
Ultimate Guide to Teen Movies
Rotten Tomatoes: 50 Greatest Teen Movies
Teen Film
Call Number: MAD 791.43 DRI
Teen Dreams
Call Number: MAD 791.43 KAV
FilmSite: War Movies
Learn Film Genre: War
BFI Genre: War
War and Antiwar Films
The American Film Industry and Vietnam
Hollywood and Vietnam
Film Style and the WW II Combat Genre
Military / War Tropes
Best War Films of All Time
War Films Without War
Ethics of War Films
The Visual Brutality of Realism in the Combat Film
War Films
Call Number: MAD 791.436 CLA
War and Film
Call Number: MAD 791.436 CHA
Western Films
Westerns: Myths, Ideologies and Genre
Beginner's Guide: Westerns
The Western: TV Tropes
The Western: An Overview
The Western
The Silent Western
30 Great Westerns
Spaghetti Westerns
Iconographic elements of the Western
Videomaker: Western Genre
Learn Film Genre: The Western
The Psychological Western
Frame by Frame: John Ford
BFI Research Guide: Westerns
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