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grow fastly. Genre is appointed after some of films that represent those genre are succesful become trends. The simple example is western genre. The storyline is often about cowboy who is expert in gun and help the victim from the cruel leader. The spesific settings are in jail, small town, main street, and ranch houses. Central plot of the western film is the classic, normally rooted in archetypal conflict – good vs bad, virtue vs evil. The typical elements are gun and gun fight sometimes on horseback, bank robbers and wore distinctive western clothing denim, jeans, boots etc. 15 Like western, others genres have their own characteristics. The main function of genre is to facilitate film classification. Genre help us to choose films based on the spesification. Genre also set up the relationship between the film-maker and audiences. Film industry often uses spesific genre as the marketing strategy. Beside for classification, function of genre is for audiences anticipation in watching.

2. Genre Classification

Genre in film are various. Most of films are combination from genres at the same time. But usually a film still has one or two dominant genres. Himawan Pratista divided film genre into the two major groups, there are primary genre and secondary genre. 16 15 Tim Dirks. ―Westerns Films‖.Filmsite.org. http:www.filmsite.orgwesternfilms.html accessed on March 2, 2015 16 Pratista. Op. Cit., p. 13

a. Primary Genre and Secondary Genre Scheme

Primary Genre Action Drama History Epic Fantasy Science-Fiction Horror Comedy Crime Musical Adventure War Western Secondary Genre Disaster Biography Detective Noir Film Melodrama Sport Vacation Roman Superhero Supernatural Spionase Thriller Primary genre is main genres that existed and popular since the developing of cinema in 1900-1930. 17 Every film at least contains one genre element of primary genre but literally a film is a combination of some genres. Not every primary genre is successful and popular from era to era. Genres like action, drama, comedy, horror, fantasy and science-fiction still popular until today. But genres like musical, history epic and western are more popular and successful in old time. Different with primary 17 Ibid.,