In Class 9/10/13

A genre is a way to classify or categorize stories, wither it be movies, music, books etc. The plot, characters and other elements of the story go into the classification of a genre. The time period also very often plays a role in the type of genres that are created.

The effect of a genre may allow you to stereotype and limit yourself to separate genres. You may not have liked Sci-Fi movies but that doesn’t mean you are going to dislike all Sci-Fi movies.

These movies no longer can just be classified around just one genres, most movies now need two or three because movies can span over so many different genres.

Mystery as a genre has now transformed more into crime solving than mystery. 

Genre evolves with the time and the environment you are living in.

The genres have basic formulas that define the story, this formula is going to have different variables which will alter the movies and progress the genre forward. 

Literature is the object that genre is defining. Genre can be applied to literature as well as movies, music, and many others.