Genre
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Genre is any style or form of communication and art in any mode with socially agreed-upon elements, or conventions, developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literatur
A genre painting, The Peasant Dance, c. 1568, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Film genre
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A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film.
Genre
…a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, based on some set of stylistic or thematic criteria, as in literary genres, film genres, music genres, comics genres, etc. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Stand-alone texts…
![Western films are those "set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier". Pictured: Clint Eastwood](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Clint_Eastwood_-_1960s.JPG/500px-Clint_Eastwood_-_1960s.JPG)
Western films are those "set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier". Pictured: Clint Eastwood in the Spaghetti Western film A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
Theatrical release poster of the 1931 American film Little Caesar.
War film or anti-war movie: Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930