History of the Horror genre

EARLY YEARS OF ACTION FILMS

The first ever action came out in the 1903, called The great train robbery but was considered as mostly a western film, including cast such as Billy Anderson and Justus D. Barnes. A lot of action film in the 1920s and 30s were based around 'swashbuckling film'. Which were a part of a sub-genre of an action film where it included a lot of sword fighting, heroic protagonist. These type of films are usually are set in the Western Europe released in the late Renaissance with the appropriate costumes. But a lot of action films were based around war period for example the slave trade and the french revolution.

1940s and 50s

Continuing on with the war movies with cowboy element through the 1940s and 50s with the built up of the new "action" films, so slowly emerging with convention of the action genre. The spy, adventure genre with the actor Alfred Hitchock from the film North by north west, which start to create pieces for the set. Producers Albert .R.Broccoil and Harry Saltzman put together there own spy spy adventure film based on the novel Ian flemming.



1960s

The well known James Bond films and series had been taken over in 1960s, which then introduced to the public about new modern action films, with a hero solving the problem in the film, which became one of the convention of action films. In these films they included of fast pace editing, car chases, weapons and fight scenes.


1970s

During 1970s detective stories and urban crime  dramas began to evolve, developing a new action style with police officer films, such as Bullitt (1968) and The french connection(1971) The seven ups (1973). Clinct Eastwood from the film Dirty Harry (1971) came out of his cowboy role and was put on as archetypal hero of urban action films. Many countries had more restricted language, different types of content and has become more wide spread.


Also marital arts became more popular in Hong kong with different western audiences and being influenced by big budgeted films such as Bruce lee's Enter the dragon (1973). Cuckle noris combined marital arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good guys wear black (1977). The first marital arts film was released (1973) called Karate Kiba, as it became an international hit with The street fighter series in 1974, which was shown in international cinema with Japanese marital arts actor.


1980s

The 1980s included of bug budgeted action blockbuster actors Alnold schwarzegger and Bruce willis. The veteran actor Nick Nolte and comedian Eddie Murphy execeeded the box office records with the action comedy 48 hours, which then became the first two person cop movie. Which then shows that protagonist becoming more well known and is slowly turning into convention of an action film. In 1988 film Die hard was one of the most influenced on the progression on action genre of films. The development from Bruce Willis plays a police detective, in LA trying to solve a terroist problem that has been happening during this time, by this it starts to develop a modern convention of an action film.

1990

With the popularity increasing for the western genre, the spy, urban-action films, with the development of CGI (computer generated imagery), started to show unnatural events occuring in "real world" which makes it more believable. The new era had shown to have a history motion pictures with big budgets. Dirty Harry and the James Bond sequels, showed success through continuing the action franchise.
The increase umber of film makes created new technology would allow them to increase there budget and gain more audience, making them explore through new convention of the action genre. Tim Burton (1989) had let to fiancial success with there sequel in a decade, creating a novel of sub genre, with comic book movie.




2000

Action film continued to have medium budget films and tied with tent pole pictures which broadcast programmer and motion pictures with the action-sc-fi film Star trek in 2009 has a sequel of action films and based on conventions of action genre included in the film (shooting and fighting). New films have more intense moments with dual scenes with some fiction twists, Films such as The matrix and Dark knight series had a lot of fighting an marital arts which have been used in these new super hero movies. Fast and furious series has a action films with varies car chases where it has been seen in smokey and the bandit films from the 1970s. In 2010, science fiction and super hero films developed into Mavel comic film with characters so being used for big budget films.