Neil Hollander: Types of film Categories

Films were not subjected to genre classification until the middle 1970s. As director Neil Hollander informs, every film has at least one genre, although there are many films that are in fact hybrids or crossbreeds, with more overlapping genre types that identify them. During the historical classification practice, three types of film categories, and one subcategory (feature film genres), gained such principled individuality that it required further separate class names.

These are the following types of film categories:

• Film genre or film discipline
• Film category
• Film style

However, the most mentioned and probably most discussed particular subclass of the feature film is the film genre. Neil Hollander and other professionals from the entertainment industry know well that in most theoretical and historical texts, it is exactly genre the one thing that appears to be most worth mentioning and remembering, simply because feature films are the predominant subject of most theoretical discussions and historical review. But film genre is just one part of the classification that stands and functions together with others. Although film categories can never be precise, still genre categories are broad enough to fit almost any film ever made.

After the question: ' To which film discipline this movie belongs?', 'Which genre?', 'Which category?' Which style? ', Neil Hollander offers a versatile repertoire of responses. For example films can belong to fiction, documentary, scientific education, propaganda, experimental or animated type, or some combination of them. In terms of genre, first and foremost Neil Hollander clarifies that when we are talking about a feature film, these are the following subgenres: western, comedy, drama, adventure, musical, science fiction, horror movie and so on. Category on the other side is often dichotomous or in a stepwise form. For example, a film can be black and white or in color, silent or sound, either commercial or non-commercial, purpose or non purpose, pure or mixed, short, medium-length or full-length, artistic or non-artistic, etc.

And last but not least, Neil Hollander explains style as a broad topic that involves various factors. If we are talking about global style, or style from a historical period, then the film belongs to one of the following types: primitive, classical, modernist or postmodernist style. Again, Neil Hollander stresses that it all depends on the period. Personal style is a completely different story, and here we get the author's identification of the film. For example a film can be categorized to the style of this or that author, and so on.

Journalist, Writer and Author Neil Hollander

Born in New York City in 1939, Neil Hollander grew up to be one of the best-known figures in the United States. His passion for traveling, exploring new things and hearing about the lives of people who made their living from the sea in the old traditions, made him change several professions, travel and live in many different places in the world, and sail on the open sea for years. He began his long and fruitful career as a war correspondent and a journalist, writing reports and stories from distant countries like Burma where people were living under a military dictatorship. Being a true traveler his whole life allowed him to visit many places such as Thailand, Costa Rica and Brazil.

Successful in all spheres, Neil Hollander is widely recognized as a multi-talented person that has been involved in a variety of things including writing, directing, producing and sailing across the World’s oceans. In his early career, after he returned from his sailing trip on an open sea, which lasted for three years, he published several books including "The Yachtsman's Emergency Handbook: The Complete Survival Manual," "Sailor Talk,", which still serve as manuals for surviving on an open sea. For most of his life, he has been advocating for world peace, and through his writing, he has brought closer to the public the dreadful lives and horrific experiences of those people living under a military regime.

His passion and talent made him a unique phenomenon in American literature and cinematography, and his projects like experimental "picture book" based on motives of the political crisis earned him the recognition as one of the most versatile figures in U.S. One of his best-known works is ‘The Last Sailors - The Final Days of Working Sail”, a travel book narrated by Orson Welles, inspired by his fascinating and evocative voyage on open sea, where he captures the spirit of a bygone era and telling the story of men using ancient craft manage to harness the wind and the sea for livelihood, after hearing many stories told by sailors, trades, and people that he had encountered on his trips.

The Great Zoo Break - Neil Hollander Book

As a writer, Neil Hollander has dedicated many working hours writing books for the young ones. Some of those books are now part of the collection '100 best children's books'. One of those books is and 'The Great Zoo Break.'

The Great Zoo Break is a kids book originally published in 1982. It is a story about a hippo, a giraffe, a monkey and a crocodile living in a zoo in New York. One day, while the zoo-keeper sleeps, they decide to break out of their cages and start out for the airport to catch a plane to Africa. Lacking the money needed to buy tickets they proceed to entertain in the town to earn their fares before departing. The book displays Susanna Gretz's illustrative talents and Neil Hollander's writing skills.