Narrative and Genre: The Genre of Telling a Story

Genre can be described as a set of particular conventions or rules that present a particular story in a particular way. The idea being that a viewer watching "X" genre will expect to recognise the story.

The Different Genres

• Action
• Adventure
• Detective
• Fantasy
• Film Noir
• Horror
• Musical
• Romantic Comedy
• Sci-Fi
• Thriller
• Western

The rules of the different genres are there to be followed because history and experience say they work.