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What is Genre?
Genre is a means of categorising anything from film and books to periodicals and even music. Genre gives the audience an idea of what the contents of a particular piece of entertainment are. This enables the audience to make quick assumptions on whether or not they might find something appealing to them.
It sometimes becomes contradictory and deficient and can help you think outside the box as to how particular narrative structures work in animations that are compliant with a particular genre. Discrete categories defined by particular features, be it visual, thematic or subject. Cinematic conventions.
Genre in Animation:
There are deemed to be six generic plots that animation (and this could be said for other types of entertainment media). These of which are: Maturation (coming of age), Redemption (protagonist transfers from bad to good), Punitive (good character behaves badly and is punished for wrongdoings), Testing (willpower versus temptation), Education (protagonist moves from negative to positive perception of world), and lastly, Disillusionment (positive to negative perception of world).
Paul Wells' Seven Genres of Animated Film:
1. Formal
2. Deconstructive
3. Political
4. Abstract
5. Re-Narration
6. Paradigmatic
7. Primal
