Genre and Regenrefication

Genre is simply the generalisation of a film and putting it into a certain category of which it should meet the expectations (which the audience has given), codes, conventions and characterisations of the Genre you have chosen to give it/ Genre can be both the form of classification or description of a type of entertainment. So therefore you could be asked 'what genre is this film' which if you were to be asked this you would need to be able to describe the specific film and from then you would be able to fit it into the expectations, codes, conventions and characterisations of each Genre. Such as in an Action film you and the audience would expect fight scenes, a plot twist, a character to die, there to be a villain ETC and if they did not fit within these expectations it would be difficult to agree with the terms of it being an Action film and could be easy to argue that indeed it is not within the Genre of Action. However sometimes it cannot be as easy as you think to give a certain film one specific Genre as that it could be fitted into multiple genres, which in media we call 'sub genres' where the film has been given one Genre but after you explain what settings, events and characters are within the film it is easy to give the film another 4 or 5 Genre's. 

Back in 1950 in America they were used to seeing Horrors all the time until the idea of Sci-Fi came around, once this had came about it was all the public wanted to see as it had never been seen before, as well as it shocked them because the idea of invasion from the unknown scared them like none other. Therefore this restricted film makers as they could only make Sci-Fi's within this time period if they wanted to make a profit or any money at all. However then the idea of Regenrefication came because film makers had already had the idea of a horror, they decided to fit in the expectations of a Sci-Fi within their horror film, however label it as a Sci-Fi as then there would be a higher audience interested or otherwise it will not make as not money as they need it too, which of course worked and is still used till some points of today.