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Warren Buckland's Theory of Genre

"The word "genre" means "type" or "category". To study a film as a genre involves treating it not as a unique entity, but as a member of general catagory as a certain type of film. The aim is to therefore classify or organise a large number of films into a small number or groups. Yet this process of Classification does not systematically organise films into genres, this is because the boundaries between film genres are fuzzy rather than clearly delineated. Moreover Genres are not static but evolve. Therefore their most common attributes change over time. Most Films are hybrid genres, since they pocess the common attributes of more than one genre." - Film Stidies by Warren Buckland

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