How many film genres are there?

[Blib]

I want to start a poll for people to choose their favorite movie genres, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how many movie genres there are because most fall into several categories.

I'll use Wall-E as an example. Would that be in an Animated genre? Sci-Fi? Drama? Romance?

I'm having a hard time finding any definitive list on the internet about how many genres there are, possibly including sub-genres (Martial Arts would seem to me to fall under Action).

Any thoughts would be helpful.

[svsg]

I won't go theoretical-anal and tell you that there are no genres or there are infinite genres. IMDB has this list:
( ) Action
( ) Adventure
( ) Animation
( ) Biography
( ) Comedy
( ) Crime
( ) Documentary
( ) Drama
( ) Family
( ) Fantasy
( ) Film-Noir
( ) History
( ) Horror
( ) Independent
( ) Music
( ) Musical
( ) Mystery
( ) Romance
( ) Sci-Fi
( ) Short
( ) Sport
( ) Thriller
( ) TV mini-series
( ) War
( ) Western

Of course some movies are going to be classified under many genres and some will fit in none of the above. On a tangential note, Aristotle (IIRC) classified plays into certain fixed number of types - I don;t remember how many.

[Blib]

Thanks svsg, that helps a lot.

[Jenson71]

Mar 27, 2009 6:03:47 GMT @svsg said:

Of course some movies are going to be classified under many genres and some will fit in none of the above. On a tangential note, Aristotle (IIRC) classified plays into certain fixed number of types - I don;t remember how many.

I'm pretty sure a play to all the Greeks was either a tragedy or a comedy. Aristotle's contribution really discussed the elements that make up each genre, among other fine art, in Poetics.