Trends in Film Genres Over 76 Years

So for my next analysis, I wanted to look at the number of films released in each genre over several years. I chose the years 1940 to 2016. I obtained the film genre data from The MovieLens project at GroupLens Since there were a number of films released in the current period, I chose to log transform the data. Below is the resulting graph.

 Currently, the most popular film genres to release are dramas and comedies. Eerily, it seems like we like to be as serious as we are silly. The code used to generate this graph will be published shortly.

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