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Description
Mind Map by courtneyodonnell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by courtneyodonnell
over 10 years ago
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Types of Genres
- Disaster
- Has an impending or ongoing disaster
as its subject and primary plot device.
- Has an impending or ongoing disaster
as its subject and primary plot device.
- Thriller
- Uses suspense, tension and
excitement as its main elements.
- Uses suspense, tension and
excitement as its main elements.
- Action
- One or more protagonists are thrust into a
series of challenges, typically physical feats,
extended fight scenes, violence and chases.
- One or more protagonists are thrust into a
series of challenges, typically physical feats,
extended fight scenes, violence and chases.
- Sci-fi
- Uses science based depictions not
necessarily adopted by mainstream
science, such as extraterrestrial life forms,
extrasensory perception, and time travel.
- Uses science based depictions not
necessarily adopted by mainstream
science, such as extraterrestrial life forms,
extrasensory perception, and time travel.
- War
- Concerns warfare; usually naval, air and
land battles but sometimes focuses on
prisoners of war and military operations.
- Concerns warfare; usually naval, air and
land battles but sometimes focuses on
prisoners of war and military operations.
- Adventure
- Revolves around the conquests and
explorations of the protagonist.
- Revolves around the conquests and
explorations of the protagonist.
- Musical
- Songs sung by the characters
are interwoven into the narrative.
- Songs sung by the characters
are interwoven into the narrative.
- Fantasy
- Has a fantastic theme, usually involving
magic, supernatural events, make believe
creatures or exotic fantasy worlds.
- Has a fantastic theme, usually involving
magic, supernatural events, make believe
creatures or exotic fantasy worlds.
- Western
- Tells stories set primarily in the later half of
the 19th Century in the American Old West.
- Tells stories set primarily in the later half of
the 19th Century in the American Old West.
- Romance
- Presents romantic love stories which
focus on passion, emotion, and romantic
involvement of the main characters.
- Presents romantic love stories which
focus on passion, emotion, and romantic
involvement of the main characters.
- Documentary
- Presents facts about
a person or event.
- Presents facts about
a person or event.
- Horror
- Seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from
viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.
- Seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from
viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.
- Comedy
- Entertains the audience through amusement
and often exaggerated characteristics of real
life for humourous effect.
- Entertains the audience through amusement
and often exaggerated characteristics of real
life for humourous effect.
- Crime
- Focus on the lives of criminals.
- Focus on the lives of criminals.
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