An example of “false friends”: literary genres/filmic genres KU Leuven
This article deals with the analogies and differences between the notion of genre in literature and the notion of genre in cinema. Despite the apparent similarities between genre concepts in both domains, it appears that the notion of genre has a very different status in literature and in cinema, not only because not all genres are represented in both media, but also because of the fact that the debate on "genre fiction" versus "genreless ...