Crime
This genre specializes in dark, foreboding films about crime, often set in urban locales where the streets are dark with more than night
Film noir
Characters in this genre show tremendous perseverance against powerful odds and dangerous situations, putting the cause above all else
The social problem film
Who directed Psycho?
Alfred Hitchcock
This subgenre of comedy expresses disdain for conventional gender roles
Screwball comedy
The "getting the crew together" sequence is a convention of which crime genre?
The heist film
Unlike genres that offer instantly identifiable settings or characters, the social problem film is distinguished by this
Its subject matter
This 1978 John Landis film reinvigorated the slapstick comedy and introduced the new convention of immature sexual humor
Animal House
A sub-subgenre of slapstick comedy that portrays comic teams engaged in (usually) male bonding
Buddy comedy
A movie in which the main characters are criminals or otherwise operating outside the boundaries of the law and/or respectable society
Gangster film
An exclusive grouping of social problem films only includes serious, realistic dramas set in contemporaneous times. An inclusive grouping would also include these types of films
Parodies and historical films
This was one of the first genres to feature Black performers in major roles in mainstream films
The tension between what is seen onscreen and what might be hovering offscreen is a key convention of this genre
Horror
The protagonists of a classical gangster film typically wear a suit that is nicer than the average man's but not as nice as a wealthy man's and this type of hat
Fedora
The social problem film relies on women to evoke an audience's concern or pity. What is the other genre that does this?
Melodrama
While American film studios were making science fiction films in the 1950s, this British studio was busy remaking classic monster features like The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula
Hammer Films
In the 1930s and 1940s, Universal Studios and RKO made a number of horror movies featuring what kind of villain?
Creatures/monsters
Another term for the mystery film or the police procedural
Detective film
How to Blow Up a Pipeline combines the conventions of the social problem film with those of this crime genre
The heist film
The Godfather and other gangster films focus on stories of immigrants trying to make it in the US and therefore call into question this major national narrative or ideal
The American Dream
This is a category or classification of films that share similar subject matter, setting, iconography, and narrative and stylistic patterns
Genre