Genres

Where did genres come from?

Genres come from America in the 1920’s to the 1950s in Hollywood by all the major movie companies, for example Warner brothers and Paramount pictures. They started to role out the same film over and over and this was making the movies business a lot of money as people liked them meaning that they went out to watch them more and more.

How did the golden age of Hollywood reinforce genres?

In the 1920’s the golden age of Hollywood was started as during the time when cinema came out people was watching the films they made and the movie business were making the same film over and over and making huge amounts of money as the audience did not want to see anything else as they liked what they was watching. They still do this in the current day with many other films for example James Bond and Fast And Furious still role out the same film every one or two years but they can do this as they have a huge fan base  all around the world that want to watch the same film.

Witch genres became popular in Hollywood?

During the golden age of Hollywood there was many different types of genres or film types, but one of the most popular films is the gangster type of film noir where there is mostly one gangster and one women and the women tries  to manipulate the man to do there dirty work for them but it always ends up going wrong and the women either ends up dying or going to jail. These were the films that people were interested as they were most of the time true stories.

Why do audiences like genre films?

Audiences like genre films as in the 1920’s the people that went to go and watch films did not go and watch the film for the title of the movie they went to the movies for the types of genres they want to see and they was most the time either Romance or a gangster type of film, another reason why audiences like the genre film is because the movie companies kept on coming out with the same genre of movies making people want to watch them more and more.