Romance Genre

Romance films tend to be a sub genre of drama films therefore will often include typical, urban settings such as a school, beach etc. and aims to get the audience emotionally involved by using possibly tragic or sad story lines. A typical romance genre would explore themes of status, relationships, sexuality and gender and are commonly targeted at a female audience.

The typical story line of a romance film would be a love story or love triangles and the main idea incorporated falling in love, dates, gifts, marriage. Romance is often interlaced with the drama genre or comedy (RomComs) also known as 'chick flicks'. The narrative will usually feature the main characters falling in love, parting then reuniting.

Examples of romance:

• Grease (1978)
• Love Actually (2003)
• The Notebook (2004)
• The Lucky One (2012)
• The Great Gatsby (2013)
• The Fault in our Stars (2014)

From looking at this genre, I noticed that romance usually tends to be combined with other genres such as comedy or drama in particular and attracts a female audience rather than male.