Yesterday’s class discussion brought me to my local Blockbuster. It was interesting to observe the layout of the store, and how the aspect of categories, or genre really does play a big part in the films that people choose to see. The categories for this particular Blockbuster consisted of New Release, Comedy, Drama, Action, Horror, Foreign Films, as well as a Family\/Children’s section. I suppose that there are benefits to limiting the amount of categories used, but I couldn’t help but wonder how it might be nice to have a section just for Westerns, or perhaps film noirs. I can understand how that may be difficult considering that so many films contain a plethora of different elements; and it’s probably easier for everyone invoved to say, “well, this one is more likely to make people laugh, so it’s a comedy; or this one has more depressing […]<\/p>\n
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