Film genre

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"A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really 'out there' in the world, or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral, time-bound entities? Are genres culture-bound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive?"--Film Theory: An Introduction (2000) by Robert Stam, page 14

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"While some genres are based on story content (the war film), other are borrowed from literature (comedy, melodrama) or from other media (the musical). Some are performer-based (the Astaire-Rogers films) or budget-based (blockbusters), while others are based on artistic status (the art film), racial identity (Black cinema), location (the Western) or sexual orientation (Queer cinema)."--Film Theory: An Introduction (2000) by Robert Stam, page 14

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In film theory, genre refers to the primary method of film categorization. A "genre" generally refers to films that share similarities in the narrative elements from which they are constructed.

1 Categorizing film genres
2 Criticisms of film genres
- 2.1 What genres are not
3 Film genre template
4 See also

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Categorizing film genres

Three main types are often used to categorize film genres; setting, mood, and format. The film's location is defined as the setting. The emotional charge carried throughout the film is known as its mood. The film may also have been shot using particular equipment or be presented in a specific manner, or format.

The following are some examples of well-established genres in film. They are often further defined to form subgenres, and can also be combined to form hybrid genres.

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Setting

Crime - places its character within realm of criminal activity
Film noir - portrays its principal characters in a nihilistic and existentialist realm or manner
Historical - taking place in the past
Science fiction - a setting or plot defined by the effects of speculative (not yet existing) technology (i.e. future space travel, cyberpunk, time travel)
Sports - sporting events and locations pertaining to a given sport
War - battlefields and locations pertaining to a time of war
Westerns - colonial period to modern era of the western United States

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Mood

Action - generally involves a moral interplay between "good" and "bad" played out through violence or physical force
Adventure - involving danger, risk, and/or chance, often with a high degree of fantasy.
Comedy - intended to provoke laughter
Drama - mainly focuses on character development
Fantasy - speculative fiction outside reality (i.e. myth, legend)
Horror - intended to provoke fear in audience
Mystery - the progression from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of clues
Romance - dwelling on the elements of romantic love
Thrillers - intended to provoke excitement and/or nervous tension into audience

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Format

Animation - the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
Live action
Documentary
Musical

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Target audience

Children's film — films for young children; as opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences.
Family film — intended to be attractive for people of all ages and suitable for viewing by a young audience. Examples of this are Disney films.
Adult film — intended to be viewed only by an adult audience, content may include violence, disturbing themes, obscene language, or explicit sexual behavior. Adult film may also be used as a synonym for pornographic film.

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Criticisms of film genres

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What genres are not

There are other methods of dividing films into groups besides genre. For example auteur critics group films according to their directors. Some groupings may be casually described as genres but this definition is questionable. For example, independent films are sometimes discussed as if they are a genre, but in fact independent production does not determine a film's storyline, and they can belong to any genre.

Some have argued that genre needs to be distinguished from film style. A film's style concerns the choices made about cinematography, editing, and sound, and a particular style can be applied to any genre. Whereas film genres identify the manifest content of film, film styles identify the manner by which any given film's genre(s) is/are rendered for the screen. Style may be determined by plot structure, scenic design, lighting, cinematography, acting, and other intentional artistic components of the finished film product. Others argue that this distinction is too simplistic, since some genres are primarily recognizable by their styles. Many historians debate whether film noir truly is a genre rather than a style of film-making often emulated in the period's heyday.

Many genres have built-in audiences and corresponding publications that support them, such as magazines and websites. Films that are difficult to categorize into a genre are often less successful. As such, film genres are also useful in areas of marketing, criticism and consumption.

Hollywood story consultant John Truby states that "...you have to know how to transcend the forms [genres] so you can give the audience a sense of originality and surprise."[1] Some screenwriters use genre as a means of determining what kind of plot or content to put into a screenplay. They may study films of specific genres to find examples. This is a way that some screenwriters are able to copy elements of successful movies and pass them off in a new screenplay. It is likely that such screenplays fall short in originality. As Truby says, "Writers know enough to write a genre script but they haven’t twisted the story beats of that genre in such a way that it gives an original face to it."

It makes sense for writers to defy the elements found in past works and come up with something different or opposite to what's been done before. Originality and surprise are the elements that make for good movie stories. For example, spaghetti westerns are known to have turned the western film genre upside down by making the good guy be bad as well as good. Prior to them, westerns had what are now considered genre clichés, such as good guys wearing white hats, bad guys wearing black hats, and the good guy always beating the bad guy in a shootout. The cliché western disappeared after the spaghetti westerns broke the "rules" of the genre.

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-While some genres are based on story content (the war film), other are borrowed from literature (comedy, melodrama) or from other media (the musical). Some are performer-based (the Astaire-Rogers films) or budget-based (blockbusters), while others are based on artistic status (the art film), racial identity (Black cinema), location (the Western) or sexual orientation (Queer cinema). (Robert Stam 2000, 14).
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+==Film genre template==
+*[[Action film|Action]]
+**[[Arthouse action film|Arthouse]]
+**[[Heroic bloodshed]]
+**[[Hong Kong action cinema|Hong Kong action]]
+*[[Adventure film|Adventure]]
+**[[Survival film|Survival]]
+*[[Art film|Art]]
+*[[Biographical film|Biographical]]
+*[[Christian film industry|Christian]]
+*[[Comedy film|Comedy]]
+**[[Black comedy|Black]]
+**[[Commedia all'italiana]]
+***[[Commedia sexy all'italiana|Sexy]]
+**[[Bromantic comedy|Bromantic]]
+**[[Comedy-drama|Dramedy]]
+**[[Gross out]]
+**[[Comedy horror|Horror]]
+**[[Parody film|Parody]]
+**[[Mo lei tau]]
+**[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]
+**[[Comedy of remarriage|Remarriage]]
+**[[Romantic comedy|Romantic]]
+**[[Sex comedy|Sex]]
+**[[Screwball comedy film|Screwball]]
+**[[Silent comedy|Silent]]
+**[[Slapstick film|Slapstick]]
+*[[Cyberpunk]]
+**[[Japanese cyberpunk|Japanese]]
+*[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
+**[[animated documentary|Animated]]
+**[[Docudrama]]
+**[[Mockumentary]]
+**[[mondo film|Mondo]]
+**[[pseudo-documentary|Pseudo]]
+**[[Semidocumentary|Semi]]
+**[[Travel documentary|Travel]]
+*[[Drama (film and television)|Drama]]
+**[[Calligrafismo]]
+**[[Comedy-drama|Dramedy]]
+**[[Historical drama|Historical]]
+**[[Legal drama|Legal]]
+**[[Melodrama#Film|Melodrama]]
+***[[Korean melodrama|Korean]]
+*[[Sex in film|Erotic]]
+**[[Commedia sexy all'italiana]]
+**[[Pink film|Pink]]
+**[[Sexploitation film|Sexploitation]]
+**[[Erotic thriller|Thriller]]
+*[[Educational film|Educational]]
+*[[Social guidance film|Social guidance]]
+*[[Epic film|Epic]]
+**[[Sword-and-sandal]]
+*[[Experimental film|Experimental]]
+*[[Exploitation film|Exploitation]]
+**[[Template:Exploitation film|see ''Exploitation film template'']]
+*[[Fantasy film|Fantasy]]
+**[[Fantasy comedy|Comedy]]
+**[[Contemporary fantasy|Contemporary]]
+**[[Fairy tale#Film|Fairy tale]]
+**[[Fantastique]]
+**[[High fantasy|High]]
+**[[Historical fantasy|Historical]]
+**[[Magic realism]]
+**[[Science fantasy|Science]]
+*[[Film noir]]
+**[[Neo-noir]]
+**[[Pulp noir]]
+**[[Tech noir]]
+*[[Gothic film|Gothic]]
+**[[Gothic romance film|Romance]]
+**[[Southern Gothic#Film and television|Southern]]
+**[[Gothic science fiction|Space]]
+**[[Suburban Gothic|Suburban]]
+**[[Urban Gothic#Film|Urban]]
+*[[Horror film|Horror]]
+**[[Art horror|Arthouse]]
+**[[List of body horror media|Body]]
+**[[Cannibal film|Cannibal]]
+**[[Chinese horror film|Chinese horror]]
+**[[Comedy horror|Comedy]]
+**[[List of eco-horror films|Eco]]
+**[[Fantastique]]
+**[[Found footage (film technique)|Found footage]]
+**[[German underground horror|German underground]]
+**[[List of ghost films|Ghost]]
+**[[Giallo]]
+**[[Holiday horror|Holiday]]
+**[[Japanese horror]]
+**[[Korean horror]]
+**[[Lovecraftian horror|Lovecraftian]]
+**[[Mumblecore#Influences on other genres|Mumblegore]]
+**[[List of natural horror films|Natural]]
+**[[New French Extremity]]
+**[[Psycho-biddy]]
+**[[Psychological horror|Psychological]]
+**[[:Category:Religious horror films|Religious]]
+**[[List of science fiction horror films|Science fiction]]
+**[[Slasher film|Slasher]]
+**[[Splatter film|Splatter]]
+**[[Satanic film|Satanic]]
+*[[Maximalist film]]
+*[[Minimalist film]]
+*[[Mumblecore]]
+**[[Mumblecore#Influences on other genres|Mumblegore]]
+*[[Musical film|Musical]]
+**[[Backstage musical|Backstage]]
+**[[Jukebox musical|Jukebox]]
+**[[Musicarello]]
+**[[Operetta film|Operetta]]
+**[[Sceneggiata]]
+*[[Mystery film|Mystery]]
+**[[Detective fiction|Detective]]
+***[[Occult detective fiction|Occult detective]]
+***[[Whodunit]]
+**[[Giallo]]
+*[[Pop culture fiction]]
+*[[Pornographic film|Pornographic]]
+**[[Hardcore pornography]]
+**[[Softcore pornography]]
+*[[Propaganda film|Propaganda]]
+*[[Reality film|Reality]]
+*[[Romance film|Romantic]]
+**[[Romantic comedy|Comedy]]
+***[[Bromantic comedy|Bromantic]]
+**[[Romantic fantasy|Fantasy]]
+**[[Gothic romance film|Gothic]]
+**[[Paranormal romance|Paranormal]]
+**[[romantic thriller|Thriller]]
+*[[Science fiction film|Science fiction]]
+**[[Arthouse science fiction film|Art]]
+**[[Science fiction comedy|Comedy]]
+**[[Fantastique]]
+**[[Science fantasy|Fantasy]]
+**[[Gothic science fiction|Gothic]]
+**[[List of science fiction horror films|Horror]]
+**[[Military science fiction|Military]]
+**[[New Wave science fiction|New Wave]]
+**[[Parallel universe (fiction)#Films|Parallel universe]]
+**[[Planetary romance]]
+**[[Space opera]]
+**[[Steampunk]]
+**[[Tokusatsu]]
+**[[Space Western|Western]]
+*[[Slice of life]]
+*[[Slow cinema]]
+*[[Thriller film|Thriller]]
+**[[Comedy thriller|Comedy]]
+**[[Conspiracy fiction#Film and television|Conspiracy]]
+**[[Erotic thriller|Erotic]]
+**[[Financial thriller|Financial]]
+**[[Giallo]]
+**[[Legal thriller|Legal]]
+**[[New French Extremity]]
+**[[Political thriller|Political]]
+**[[Psychological thriller|Psychological]]
+**[[Romantic thriller|Romantic]]
+**[[Techno-thriller|Techno]]
+*[[Transgressive art|Transgressive]]
+**[[Cinema of Transgression]]
+**[[Extreme cinema]]
+**[[New French Extremity]]
+*[[Trick film|Trick]]
+*[[List of films about animals|Animals]]
+*[[Beach party film|Beach party]]
+*[[Body swap]]
+*[[Buddy film|Buddy]]
+**[[Buddy cop film|Buddy cop]]
+**[[Female buddy film|Female]]
+*[[Cannibal film|Cannibal]]
+*[[Chicano films|Chicano]]
+*[[Colonial cinema|Colonial]]
+*[[Coming-of-age story|Coming-of-age]]
+*[[Concert film|Concert]]
+*[[Crime film|Crime]]
+**[[Detective fiction|Detective]]
+**[[Gangster film|Gangster]]
+**[[Gentleman thief]]
+**[[Gokudō]]
+**[[Gong'an fiction|Gong'an]]
+**[[Heist film|Heist]]
+**[[Heroic bloodshed]]
+**[[Hood film|Hood]]
+**[[Mafia film|Mafia]]
+**[[Mafia comedy]]
+**[[Mumbai underworld film|Mumbai underworld]]
+**[[Poliziotteschi]]
+**[[Yakuza film|Yakuza]]
+*[[Dance in film|Dance]]
+*[[Disaster film|Disaster]]
+**[[List of apocalyptic films|Apocalyptic]]
+*[[List of drug films|Drug]]
+**[[Psychedelic film|Psychedelic]]
+**[[Stoner film|Stoner]]
+*[[List of dystopian films|Dystopian]]
+*[[Ecchi]]
+*[[Economics film|Economic]]
+*[[Ethnographic film|Ethnographic]]
+*[[Exploitation film|Exploitation]]
+**[[Blaxploitation]]
+**[[Mexploitation]]
+**[[Turksploitation]]
+*[[List of films featuring extraterrestrials|Extraterrestrial]]
+*[[List of films about food and drink|Food and drink]]
+*[[Gendai-geki]]
+*[[List of ghost films|Ghost]]
+*[[Goona-goona epic]]
+*[[Gothic film|Gothic]]
+**[[Gothic romance film|Romance]]
+**[[Southern Gothic#Film and television|Southern]]
+**[[Gothic science fiction|Space]]
+**[[Suburban Gothic|Suburban]]
+**[[Urban Gothic#Film|Urban]]
+*[[Girls with guns]]
+*[[Harem (genre)|Harem]]
+*[[Hentai]]
+**[[Lolicon]]
+**[[Shotacon]]
+**[[Tentacle erotica]]
+*[[Heimatfilm|Homeland]]
+*[[Isekai]]
+*[[Jidaigeki]]
+**[[Samurai cinema|Samurai]]
+*[[Gentleman thief|Kaitō]]
+*[[List of LGBT-related films|LGBT]]
+**[[Yaoi]]
+**[[Yuri (genre)|Yuri]]
+*[[Luchador films|Luchador]]
+*[[Magical girl]]
+*[[Martial arts film|Martial arts]]
+**[[Bruceploitation]]
+**[[Chopsocky]]
+**[[Gun fu]]
+**[[Kung fu film|Kung fu]]
+**[[List of ninja films|Ninja]]
+**[[Wuxia#Films|Wuxia]]
+*[[Mecha]]
+**[[Mecha anime and manga|Anime]]
+*[[Monster movie|Monster]]
+**[[List of films featuring giant monsters|Giant monster]]
+**[[Jiangshi fiction#Hong Kong cinema|Jiangshi]]
+**[[Kaiju]]
+**[[List of mummy films|Mummy]]
+**[[Vampire films|Vampire]]
+**[[Werewolf fiction#Films|Werewolf]]
+**[[List of zombie films|Zombie]]
+***[[Zombie comedy]]
+*[[Mountain film|Mountain]]
+*[[Cinema da Boca do Lixo|Mouth of Garbage]]
+*[[Muslim social]]
+*[[Nature documentary|Nature]]
+**[[List of environmental films|Environmental issues]]
+*[[Opera film|Opera]]
+*[[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]]
+*[[Ozploitation]]
+*[[Partisan film]]
+*[[Pirates in popular culture#Films|Pirate]]
+*[[Prison film|Prison]]
+**[[Women in prison film|Women]]
+*[[Race film|Race]]
+*[[Rape and revenge film|Rape and revenge]]
+*[[Road movie|Road]]
+*[[Trümmerfilm|Rubble]]
+*[[Rumberas film|Rumberas]]
+*[[Sexploitation film|Sexploitation]]
+**[[Bavarian porn]]
+**[[Commedia sexy all'italiana]]
+**[[Mexican sex comedy]]
+**[[Nazi exploitation]]
+**[[Pornochanchada]]
+**[[Nunsploitation]]
+**[[Sex report film|Sex report]]
+*[[Shomin-geki]]
+*[[List of films featuring slavery|Slavery]]
+*[[Slice of life#Cinema|Slice of life]]
+*[[Snuff film|Snuff]]
+*[[South Seas genre|South Seas]]
+*[[Sports film|Sports]]
+*[[Spy film|Spy]]
+**[[Eurospy film|Eurospy]]
+*[[Superhero film|Superhero]]
+*[[Surf film|Surfing]]
+*[[Swashbuckler film|Swashbuckler]]
+*[[Sword-and-sandal]]
+*[[Sword and sorcery]]
+*[[Travel documentary|Travel]]
+*[[Trial film|Trial]]
+*[[Vigilante film|Vigilante]]
+*[[War film|War]]
+**[[List of anti-war films|Anti-war]]
+**[[Euro War]]
+**[[Submarine films|Submarine]]
+*[[Western (genre)|Western]]
+**[[Acid Western|Acid]]
+**[[Fantasy Western|Fantasy]]
+**[[Florida Western|Florida]]
+**[[Horror Western|Horror]]
+**[[Meat pie Western|Meat pie]]
+**[[Northern (genre)|Northern]]
+**[[Ostern]]
+**[[Revisionist Western|Revisionist]]
+**[[Science fiction Western|Science fiction]]
+**[[Space Western|Space]]
+**[[Spaghetti Western|Spaghetti]]
+*[[Absolute film|Absolute]]
+*[[American Eccentric Cinema]]
+*[[New Objectivity (filmmaking)|New Objectivity]]
+*[[Australian New Wave]]
+*[[Auteur|Auteur films]]
+*[[Berlin School (filmmaking)|Berlin School]]
+*[[Bourekas film|Bourekas]]
+*[[Brighton School (filmmaking)|Brighton School]]
+*[[British New Wave]]
+**[[Kitchen sink realism]]
+*[[Budapest school]]
+*[[Calligrafismo]]
+*[[Cannibal film|Cannibal boom]]
+*[[Cinéma du look]]
+*[[Cinema Novo]]
+*[[Cinema of Transgression]]
+*[[Cinéma pur]]
+*[[Commedia all'italiana]]
+*[[Czechoslovak New Wave]]
+*[[Documentary Film Movement]]
+*[[Dogme 95]]
+*[[Erra Cinema]]
+*[[European art cinema]]
+*[[Film gris]]
+*[[Free Cinema]]
+*[[French New Wave]]
+*[[German Expressionism|German Expressionist]]
+*[[German underground horror]]
+*[[Golden Age of Nigerian Cinema|Nigerian Golden Age]]
+*[[Grupo Cine Liberación]]
+*[[Heimatfilm]]
+*[[Hollywood on the Tiber]]
+*[[Hong Kong New Wave]]
+*[[Iranian New Wave]]
+*[[Italian futurism in cinema|Italian futurist]]
+*[[Italian neorealism|Italian neorealist]]
+*[[Japanese New Wave]]
+*[[Kammerspielfilm]]
+*[[L.A. Rebellion]]
+*[[Lettrism|Lettrist]]
+*[[Modernist film]]
+*[[Mumblecore]]
+*[[Neorealism (art)|Neorealist]]
+*[[New French Extremity]]
+*[[New German Cinema|New German]]
+*[[New Generation (Malayalam film movement)|New Generation]]
+*[[New Hollywood]]
+*[[New Nigerian Cinema|New Nollywood]]
+*[[New Queer Cinema|New Queer]]
+*[[No Wave Cinema|No wave]]
+*[[Nuevo Cine Mexicano]]
+*[[Pan-India films]]
+*[[Parallel cinema]]
+*[[Persian Film]]
+*[[Poetic realism|Poetic realist]]
+*[[Polish Film School]]
+*[[Poliziotteschi]]
+*[[Praška filmska škola]]
+*[[Prussian film]]
+*[[Pure Film Movement]]
+*[[Remodernist film|Remodernist]]
+*[[Romanian New Wave]]
+*[[Slow cinema]]
+*[[Spaghetti Western]]
+*[[Socialist realism|Socialist realist]]
+*[[Social realism|Social realist]]
+**[[Kitchen sink realism]]
+*[[Soviet Parallel Cinema|Soviet Parallel]]
+*[[Structural film|Structural]]
+*[[Surrealist cinema|Surrealist]]
+*[[Sword-and-sandal]]
+*[[Telefoni Bianchi]]
+*[[Third Cinema]]
+*[[Toronto New Wave]]
+*[[Vulgar auteurism]]
+*[[Yugoslav Black Wave]]
+*[[Pornographic film|Adult]]
+*[[Black film|Black]]
+*[[Children's film|Children and family]]
+**[[Children's anime and manga|Anime]]
+*Men
+**[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]
+**[[Stag film|Stag]]
+*[[Teen film|Teen]]
+**[[Shōnen manga|Shōnen]]
+**[[Shōjo manga|Shōjo]]
+*[[Woman's film|Women]]
+**[[Chick flick]]
+**[[Josei manga|Josei]]
+*[[3D film|3D]]
+*[[Actuality film|Actuality]]
+*[[Animation]]
+**[[Anime]]
+**[[Arthouse animation|Art]]
+**[[Animated cartoon|Cartoon]]
+**[[Computer animation|Computer]]
+**[[Stop motion|Stop-motion]]
+**[[Traditional animation|Traditional]]
+*[[Anthology film|Anthology]]
+*[[Art film|Art]]
+*[[B movie]]
+*[[Black and white|Black-and-white]]
+*[[Blockbuster (entertainment)|Blockbuster]]
+*[[Cinéma vérité]]
+*[[Classical Hollywood cinema]]
+*[[Collage film|Collage]]
+*[[Color motion picture film|Color]]
+*[[Compilation film|Compilation]]
+*[[Composite film|Composite]]
+*[[Computer screen film|Computer screen]]
+*[[Cult film|Cult]]
+**[[midnight movie]]
+*[[Database cinema]]
+*[[Docufiction]]
+*[[Ethnofiction]]
+*[[Experimental film|Experimental]]
+**[[Abstract animation|Abstract]]
+*[[Feature film|Feature]]
+*[[Featurette]]
+*[[Film à clef]]
+*[[Film-poem]]
+*[[Found footage (film technique)|Found footage]]
+*[[Grindhouse]]
+*[[Hyperlink cinema]]
+*[[Independent film|Independent]]
+**[[Guerrilla filmmaking]]
+*[[Interstitial art]]
+*[[Live action]]
+**[[List of films with live action and animation|animation]]
+*[[Low-budget film|Low-budget]]
+*[[Major film studio|Major studio]]
+*[[Making-of]]
+*[[Masala film|Masala]]
+*[[Maximalist film]]
+*[[Message picture]]
+*[[Metacinema|Meta-film]]
+*[[Minimalist film]]
+*[[Mockbuster]]
+*[[Modernist film]]
+*[[Musical short]]
+*[[Mythopoeia]]
+*[[Neorealism (art)|Neorealist]]
+*[[No-budget film|No-budget]]
+*[[One-shot film|One-shot]]
+*[[Paracinema]]
+*[[Participatory cinema|Participatory]]
+*[[Poetry film|Poetry]]
+*[[Postmodernist film|Postmodernist]]
+*[[Reverse motion]]
+*[[Satire (film and television)|Satire]]
+*[[Sceneggiata]]
+*[[Semidocumentary]]
+*[[Serial film|Serial]]
+*[[Shinpa]]
+*[[Short film|Short]]
+*[[Silent film|Silent]]
+*[[Slow cinema]]
+*[[Socialist realism|Socialist realist]]
+*[[Sound film|Sound]]
+*[[Underground film|Underground]]
+*[[Video nasty]]
+*[[Vulgar auteurism]]
+*[[Z movie]]
+==See also==
+*[[Nudity in film]]
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