Why Horror Genre has changed over the time?

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How and why Genre has changed over the time?

In this statement I will argue about Horror genre that has changed over the time.  Genre is one of the important key concepts of Media. At basic level ‘Genre’ means Type. In this way we can identify films and television programs such as docudrama or film genre Action/Adventure. Genre is important because it helps to create expectorations in an audience and it allows media producers to use certain conventions of iconography and narrative to segment audiences into categories and meet the audience needs and expectations.

Horror genre has changed over the time in different ways. When we talk about Horror genre we expect fear, pleasure created by aural and visual characters, blood, freaks, Evil(s)/monster(s), Vampire(s), Werewolves etc. The character(s) in a film represent Horror genre and are the codes and conventions of Horror genre. According to Chandler; A text(s) that are grouped by genre when they have a number of shared characteristics. Given the variety of characteristics that could identify a text as horrors, this approach is not wholly useful when attempting to define the genre. A common thing that is shared by Horror genre is “To scare the target audience.”

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Horror films have been around for long time. When we look back in the history, the first Horror novel ‘Dracula story’ was written by Bram Stoker in 1897. Nosferatu (1922), the German Horror film produce in the beginning of the history of cinema.  Now watching texts from other eras such as Saw 3 (2006), we as modern audience find that those old Horror genre has lost their impact. The earliest Horror films represent concerns about supernatural but easily identifiable threats which have come from elsewhere such as monsters, werewolves and mummies, the Horror genre is now primarily concerned with threats ...

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