It would be surprising to encounter an average citizen who could not easily recognize a set of genre films. After seeing a film like High Noon or Unforgiven, it is quite obvious that they are what we categorize as westerns. In the same way, a viewer might see The Exorcist or Nightmare on Elm Street and just as easily classify them as horror films. Since the beginning of the film industry and the start of movie production, the repetition of story and content in application has produced a predictability and comfort of expectation which leads audiences to create broad labels to categorize similarities they have discovered throughout a vast number of films; specific defining features. Our mental tendencies are to label everything for our ow
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