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    Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors...
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  • music, or other forms of art or entertainment, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining...
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  • Music can be divided into genres in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, such as for popular music, as opposed to art music or folk music; or...
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    days of cinema in the 19th century the term "genre" (already in use in English with reference to works of art or literary production from at least 1770)...
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    Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One...
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  • colloquialism for a genre of Japanese art and media known within Japan as gay manga (ゲイ漫画) or gei komi (ゲイコミ, "gay comics"). The genre focuses on male same-sex...
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    Scottish genre art is the depiction of everyday life in Scotland, or by Scottish artists, emulating the genre art of Netherlands painters of the sixteenth...
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  • Comedy can be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. These classifications...
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  • Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture. Genre may also refer...
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    A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. This is independent...
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    Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized...
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  • Art horror or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror) is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. It explores and experiments with the...
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  • other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by...
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    The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California...
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  • "Genre-busting" is a term used occasionally in reviews of written work, music and visual art and refers to the author or artist's ability to cross over...
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  • Boogie (sometimes called post-disco and electro-funk) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that...
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  • production company Genre (1996 film), a live-action/animated short by Don Hertzfeldt Genre, the generic term referring to all forms of art and entertainment...
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    Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally...
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  • Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its...
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    fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance...
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  • This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic...
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    Genre studies is an academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critical theory in several different fields, including art, literature...
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  • referred to as cross-genre, multi-genre, mixed genre, or fusion genre. The Dictionary of Media and Communication describes hybrid genre as "the combination...
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  • music. Influences may be drawn from genres such as experimental music, avant-garde music, classical music, and jazz. Art rock was created with the intention...
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    Vanitas (category Visual arts genres)
    futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of art which uses symbolism to show the transience of life, the futility of...
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  • This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became...
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    A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They...
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  • Anti-genre is a self-descriptive label attributed to any artistic style devoid of genre. This lack of genre-status can either be the result of: (1) an...
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  • media such as video art, body art, installation, performance, and sound art. New Genres art is commonly identified as installation art, video, film, sound...
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    Pastoral (category Literary genres)
    The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according...
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