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Definitions of Some Movie Terms Categorization of Genres: 1. Much academic ink has been wasted in the fruitless attempt to give a definitive list of the Hollywood genres. 2. In fact, genres and generic classifications are used more flexibly than much academic criticism would suggest. 3. Film genres include: Social drama; Romance; Gangster; War Film; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Western; Disaster; Crime; Epic; Action; Musical; Blockbuster; Film Noir/Neo-Noir Comedy; Horror; Thriller The main character and the protagonist The main character is the most important character in a film, the character of greatest interest. Usually the main character is also the “protagonist”, the character whose actions trigger the chain of causes and effects that drive the plot forward. Occasionally, however, the protagonist is not the main character. Vogler’s Seven Character Archetypes Volgler argues that there are seven basic character functions: hero, mentor(导师), threshold guardian(关卡守卫者）， herald（信使），shapeshifter (变化着），shadow(影子）and trickster(骗子，魔术师）. The character archetypes are key elements of a story pattern that gives “accurate models of the workings of the human mind, true maps of the psyche. The Classic Hollywood Narrative System (CHHS)  Hollywood has developed over the years a set of widely accepted narrative principles and conventions that together form what have been called, variously, the “Classical Hollywood Narrative System” (CHNS), the “Classical Hollywood Cinema”, and the “Classical Design”. The basic principles of the CHNS are: The Hero/Protagonist; Cause and Effect; Omniscient Narration(全知叙述）; Motivation; Elision(省略）；Narrative Closure. Dialectical Montage The diametrical opposite of continuity editing is dialectical montage. Dialectical montage is an editing technique that emphasizes, rather than hides, the discontinuity (不连贯性）between one shot and another. The discontinuity may be stylistic: one shot might be a close-up, the next a long shot; on