Swashbuckler movies are one of the most flamboyant Hollywood genres.
But the western analogy goes only so far: structurally, the Hollywood genre the martial arts films most resemble is the musical.
This culture generation gap has produced its own Hollywood genre.
Despite Hawks work in a variety of Hollywood genres he still retained an independent sensibility.
It was a kind of improvisation that offered a fresh verisimilitude to tired, stagey Hollywood genres.
Mulloy has made over 30 animated films many of which are in themed groupings based on Hollywood genres.
Each 30 minute show concentrated on a Hollywood genre, film or legendary star.
He remarks that few critics dared admit that they were, in fact, "bored with an exhausted Hollywood genre."
The biopic, a sturdy and venerable Hollywood genre, has become increasingly problematic in recent years.
Horror has never been at the top of the pecking order among Hollywood genres, always a kind of tolerated stepchild.