One of the major ideas enforced in film schools today is that during the Studio era in Hollywood, films always fitted neatly into different genres, and each studio was best known for a certain genre of film.

 

This portion of the site is devoted to defining these genres. Often, many different genres will overlap, so I have tried to choose the purest examples of each that I can find.

 

Under each genre, I will include a brief defintion, films that represent the genre, great filmmakers who worked primarily in that genre, and even studios that excelled in a specific genre, when applicable.