Genre theory is among the fundamental approaches to the historical and systematic understanding of motion pictures. This introductory volume provides an overview of the use of genre analysis in film studies and about the main motion-picture genres. For each of the genres presented, the book includes an exemplary film analysis. It also offers an interdisciplinary view on the utility of the concept of genre in other media.

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Markus Kuhn, Irina Scheidgen and Nicola Valeska Weber, University of Hamburg, Germany.