Genre
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Genre is any style or form of communication in any mode with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other for
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.
![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