Reading Time: 13 minutesOverview Genre theory is a way of analyzing film that treats genre as a working system, not a label placed on a finished movie. Its key thinkers include Rick Altman, whose semantic/syntactic approach reframed genre as a dynamic system, and Steve Neale, who stressed genre as a process shaped by industry and audience expectation. The… Continue reading Genre Theory in Film: How Genres Organize Expectation and Meaning