Talk:Film styles

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How does this page differ from film genres?

A genre is a subject matter, so a cowboy movie for example, but you could film it in different styles like 'film noire' and 'surrealism'. A horror movie and a documentary is also a genre and not a style. You can add different styles to genre's. Another thing would be perspective. From what or who's viewpoint is the story told. 2002-08-26/Jaap


 * Since when is horror not a genre? --Brion

Sorry, my sentence above was unclear. I have rectified it. To determine if cowboy is a style, ask yourself: What must it be about? About cowboys of course, so that is a genre. Horror must be about something that is freightening, so it's genre. A documentairy must be about something that is real, so it's a genre. A film noir doesn't have to go about a specific subject or class of subjects so it's a style. The some goes for 'surreal', there is no prescribed subject matter. Take the detective, does it have a prescripted subject matter? Yes, it must be about solving crime, so it's a genre. SF-movies must go about the future. Love-stories must go about love. War movies must go about war. So those are all genre's and not styles. You can combine a style with every genre, so you can make a surreal war-movie (Mash?) or you can make a film noir style movie about the war (Apocolypse now?). Of course it's easy to confuse genre and style, because most films in a certain genre use a fixed style. But for example, I would call 'Barbarella' a surreal SF movie and Star Wars more a realistic SF movie. Soylent Green would be more a film noir style SF movie, Blade Runner too. 2002-08-26/Jaap


 * I thought it would be something like that, but with multiple contributors you're going to have a hard time keeping Film styles and Film genres from cross-pollinating. I just added two "genre" films to your "styles" list and surely others will be tempted.  How about a single article on both film styles and genres (like that one up there) with some nice separate lists to keep them apart?  Ortolan88


 * Seconded. People won't catch the distinction, I think.  --KQ

I think that seperate subjects should get separate pages, but it would indeed be useful then to explain the distinction on both pages or at least link to the other page, I think. By the way, to make things more complex, there are also a lot of genre-mixes like 'back to the future 3' which was a combination of an SF-movie, a cowboy movie and a comedy. But I'd call the style (mildly) surrealistic. By the way: Is comedy a genre or a style? ;-) Jaap
 * Comedy is a basic human necessity, after food and shelter but before clothing. --KQ


 * There should definitely be links between the two pages, but both pages need to start out with good strong definitions like Jaap is putting on this talk page. Ortolan88

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Styles and Genres
 I made some comments at Talk:List of movie genres that affect this page. It seems pretty clear that this page is based on primary research. The whole group of pages needs some overhauling (much of it being written in 2002), and I aim to start restructuring some of it, with external references to support the new structure. 