Various types of films that audiences and filmmakers recognize by their recurring conventions. Common genres are horror films, gangster films, and Westerns.

Various types of films which audiences and filmmakers recognize by their familiar narrative conven­tions. Common genres are musical, gangster, and Western films.

Types of film recognized by audiences and/or producers, sometimes retrospectively. These types are distinguished by narrative or stylistic conventions, or merely by their discursive organization in influential criticism. Genres are made necessary by high volume industrial production, for example in the mainstream cinema of the U.S.A and Japan. Thriller/Detective film: The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Horror film: Bride of Frankestein (John Whale, 1935) Western: The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) Musical: Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)

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Types of texts which include fiction (fantasy, science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and traditional fiction such as: folk tales, legends, epics, myths, fairy tales) and non-fiction (informational, biography, autobiography, and memoir). See Fountas/Pinnell 3-6 page 393 for further explanation.

different styles of writing for different purposes

are sociocultural language activities which are goal-directed in order to fulfil functions that are of significance within a society. Different genres may be staged differently, with each stage being realised by different sets of linguistic features.

Each program in your TV belongs to one or more genres. Genres are one of the most important things for TiVo, since these are used to make suggestions for future recordings. The longer you use your TiVo and the better the genres match a program, the better the suggestions will be.