/lit/ - Literature

When did you grow up and cast aside the shackles known as genres?
>What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel—each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin—comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated.
>Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Companies invented genres to sell media to the masses. They have zero bearing on the creative minds of anyone but hacks.
The hack falls back on formulaic writing. It follows the path given to it by genre-- e.g., following the "beats" of the genre (see: The Anatomy of Genres by John Truby)
On a related note, gender is also bullshit.