Genre Definition & History of Science-fiction

Genre Definition

According to Oxford Dictionary, genre is a style or category of art, music and literature. Normally, we defined genre as type of film. As time goes by, genre is developing and more elements are adding into it. While genre is developed, the old one is discontinued. One of the characteristics of genre is the story in the films repeat again and again. It repeats with rules, convention and see what can happen around the genre. The story keep repeating may produces two effects which are it can make the filmmaker focus on the specific genre and it can also attracts the audience to the development of the story.

History of Science-fiction

How does Science-fiction come from? The term “science-fiction” was first used by William Wilson in 1851. It then started in 1896, in the pulp magazines which produced by Frank A. Munsey. The pulp magazines filled with adventure stories in different locales and periods. After that, a science magazine called Amazing Stories with science-fiction stories had been published in 1926 that edited by Hugo Gernsback. It is the first magazine that published the stories with science-fiction in the early nineteenth century. The first science-fiction film called A Trip To The Moon by Georges Melies which produced in 1902. After that, science-fiction has develops with different characteristic and more element comes out in science-fiction genre.

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