It is aimed to explain the concept of genre in cinema and to examine the formal and contextual features of the genres that emerged throughout the history of cinema. The main goal is, provide students the competence to evaluate the relation between film genre and social structure, to criticize and discuss examples of genre films.

It is the course that genre settlement in Hollywood, world and Turkish cinema, artistic and commercial dimension of genre films, the relationship between the genre and social, economic and cultural structure, and the characteristics of film genres are examined and evaluated.