Film genre

Film genre

• Epic
• Fables (दन्त्यकथा), folk stories (लोककथा), hearsay (जनश्रुती)
• Historical film
• Literary film
• Comedy films (silent before 1927)
• Comedy films ( with sound after 1927)
• Science fiction
• Gangster films
• Horror, thriller, suspense, murder mystery films (Alfred Hitchcock, U.K. and Claude Chabrol, France)
• Western films – John Ford, USA
• Famous artists of western films – John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Randolph Scott, Joel Makia, Clint Eastwood
• Other western directors – Howard Hax, Budd Bewitcher, Anthony Man, Raol Walsh, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray, Arthur Penn, Sam pekinpa, etc.
• The famous NINE western films that John Ford picturized in a single location in different years; at monument valley, located between Arizona, Utah and California:
• The iron horse (silent)
• Stage coach (1939)
• My darling clementine (1946)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• She wore a yellow ribbon (1949)
• Reo Grande (1950)
• The searchers (1956)
• The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Chien Autumn (1964)
• Some famous John Ford films :
• Straight shooting( silent)
• Three bad men (silent)
• Drums along the Mohawk (1939)
• Three godfathers ( 1948)
• Wagon masters (1950)
• The horse soldiers (1959)
• Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
• Two road together (1961)
• Training films
• Newsreels
• Documentary films
• War films
• Cartoon/ animation films
• Adventure films
• Intellectual films
• Traditional films (commercial films)
• Ad films
• Underground films
• ISM – Oriented films
• Idealism (आदर्शवाद)
• Naturalism (प्रकृतिवाद)
• Realism (यथार्थवाद)
• Neo – realism (नवयथार्थवाद)
• Surrealism (अतियथार्थवाद)
• Shadowism (छायाँवाद)
• Expressionism (अभिव्यक्तिवाद)
• Impressionism (प्रभाववाद)
• Deconstruction (विनिर्माणवाद)
• Alienationism
• New wave (नौलोधारा, नवधार)
• Materialism of S.M. Eisenstein