Genre and Genre Theory ENG225: Introduction to Film Genre and Genre Theory When choosing a movie, do viewers base it off the actors or actresses portraying a character or look at the genre to see if it is worth watching? What about picking a random movie, not knowing anything about it? Do they guess what the genre could be, or do they watch the film, studying it to decide where it should fall? In this essay, I will be talking about what genre theory is. I will also be discussing a film I have chosen and how it was categorized into its genre. Goodykoontz & Jacobs, in their textbook Films: from watching to seeing, state genre is a type or category, and genre films are usually easily recognizable as part of a certain genre. Films help engage us with the characters and storylines, yet...