ABSTRACT
In the decades following the rapid economic development of the 1960s, a diverse group of domestic filmmakers, both men and women, have continued to explore a wide range of themes (disability, individuality vs. collectivism, coming of age, man vs. himself, poverty, loyalty, good vs. evil, appearance vs. reality, colonialism, militarism, and challenging authority, etc.), genres (war, crime, prison, period, comedy, horror, road movie, science fiction, and fantasy), and forms ( feature, short film, documentary, experimental, animation, claymation, etc.). These are all categories that involve and contribute to genre differentiation, emphasizing the subtleties involved in making and talking about films and the ways in which they subvert expectations associated with particular genres.
