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| x Satire |
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Political satire |
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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| x Political satire |
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Satire |
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political...
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| x Mecha |
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Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in anime, science fiction, or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal, with arms,...
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| x Anime |
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Anime (アニメ, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronouned [anime] ( listen) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænɪmeɪ/ or /ˈænɪmə/ in English) is animation originating in Japan. The rest of the world regard anime to be "Japanese...
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| x Martial arts |
Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. This genre is a type of action film characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts. This genre has mainly been produced in China, peaking in...
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| x Situation comedy | Comedy |
A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring...
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| x Humour |
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Humour or humor (see American and British English spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
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| x Social commentary |
Social commentary is the act of rebelling against an individual, or a group of people by rhetorical means. This is most often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and...
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| x Non-fiction |
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that...
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| x History |
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History is the study (teaching) of the past, with special attention to the written record of the activities of human beings over time. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to...
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| x Music history |
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Musicology |
The field of music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of...
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| x Cultural history |
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The term cultural history (from the German term Kulturgeschichte) refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.
Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of...
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| x Music theory |
Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a grand sense, music theory distills and analyzes the parameters or...
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| x Musicology | Music history |
Musicology (Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason") is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture. In...
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| x Fiction |
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Fiction, from the Latin fingere to create, fictum created, is anything imaginatively invented, a feigned existence, event, or state of things. In a second more concrete and basically 20th-century meaning fiction has become the general term uniting...
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| x Fantasy |
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Speculative fiction | Sword and sorcery |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| x Young adult literature |
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Young Adult Literature is also called "YA Lit".
The definition of Young Adult Literature (YA Lit) varies based upon the age group at which the literature is aimed, and who is asked. Authors, readers, and young adult agencies all have different views...
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| x Bollywood |
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Bollywood (Hindi: बॉलीवूड) is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry....
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| x Drama |
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Costume drama |
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα, dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: δράω, dráō). The enactment of drama in theatre,...
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| x Sports game |
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Arena football |
A sports game is a computer or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including team sports, athletics and extreme sports. Some games emphasize actually playing the sport (such as...
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| x Massively multiplayer online game |
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MMORPG |
A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMOG or simply MMO) is a video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and feature at least one persistent...
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| x Comedy-drama |
Comedy-drama, also called dramedy or seriocomedy, is a style of television and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.
Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into...
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| x Adventure |
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Adventure Film is a film genre.
The adventure film reached its peak of popularity in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably Errol...
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| x War | Action genre | Gulf War |
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or...
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| x Novel |
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A novel (from the Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern...
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| x Textbook |
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A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study. They are produced according to the demand of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online...
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| x Musical |
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The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films (i.e.Down Argentine Way) simply...
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| x Künstlerroman | Bildungsroman |
A Künstlerroman (pronounced [/ˈkʏnstlɐ.roˌmaːn/], German: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman; it is a novel about an artist's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values...
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| x Bildungsroman | Künstlerroman |
A bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.roˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation" or "novel of education") is a novelistic genre that arose during the German Enlightenment, in which the author presents the psychological, moral and social...
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| x Religious text |
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Religious texts, also known as scripture, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are...
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| x Comic science fiction |
Comic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard SF conventions like alien invasion of earth, interstellar travel, or futuristic...
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| x Space opera |
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Science fiction |
Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite...
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| x Sports entertainment | Hobbies and interests |
Sports entertainment is a type of spectacle which presents an ostensibly competitive event using a high level of theatrical flourish and extravagant presentation, with the purpose of entertaining an audience. Unlike typical athletics and games,...
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| x Horror |
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Speculative fiction | Splatterpunk |
Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s,...
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| x News media |
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The news media refers to the section of the mass media that focuses on presenting current news to the public. These include print media (newspapers, magazines); broadcast media (radio stations, television stations, television networks), and...
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| x Telenovela |
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A telenovela is a limited-run television serial melodrama of the type made famous in Latin America. The word is a portmanteau of tele, short for television, and novela ("novel/soap opera"). Telenovelas are essentially soap operas in miniseries...
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| x New Year's Eve |
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New Year's Eve is on December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the day before New Year's Day.
New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day. In modern Western practice, New Year's Eve is celebrated with...
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| x Pop music |
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Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure.
The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" (see popular music), but...
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| x Crime fiction |
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Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be,...
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| x Supernatural |
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The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature") pertains to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are spells and curses,...
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| x Telethon |
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A telethon is a fundraising event broadcast on television that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political, or other allegedly worthy cause. Correspondingly, the term is a portmanteau of ...
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| x Romantic comedy | Comedy |
Romantic comedy is a hybrid genre in which a story about romance is presented in a comedic style. Works in this genre are generally considered light-hearted, and are sometimes associated with the vaguely derogatory terms "chick lit" or "chick flick"...
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| x Nursery school |
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A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of three and five, staffed by qualified teachers and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare. It is generally considered part...
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| x Neo-noir |
Neo-noir (from the Greek neo, new; and the French noir, black) is a style often seen in modern motion pictures and other forms that prominently utilizes elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that...
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| x Anthology television series |
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An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode. Several series employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a new drama each week. Some...
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| x Real life |
Real life is a term referring to life in the real world. It is generally used in reference to life or consensus reality in contrast with of an environment seen as fiction or fantasy, such as the Internet, virtual reality, dreams, novels, or movies....
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| x Costume drama | Drama |
A costume drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambiance of a particular era.
The term is usually used in the context of film and television. It is an informal, crossover term...
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| x Mockumentary |
Mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary, also known as Fake documentary), is a genre of film and television, or a single work of the genre. Although a mockumentary may be one of the comedy genres, serious mockumentaries also exist. The...
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| x Miniseries |
A miniseries (also mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to one season.
Although...
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| x Japanese television drama |
Japanese dramas (テレビドラマ, terebi dorama, television drama), also called dorama (ドラマ), are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedies, detective...
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| x News broadcasting |
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News broadcasting (also known as newscast or newsbreak) is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television or radio. The content is usually either produced locally in a newsroom, or by a broadcast network. It may also...
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| x Gambling |
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Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period....
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| x Entertainment |
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Entertainment is an activity designed to give people a diversion. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually...
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| x Adventure |
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An adventure is an activity that comprises risky, dangerous or uncertain experiences. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports....
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| x Anthology |
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts. In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and...
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| x Magical girl |
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Magical girls (魔法少女, mahō shōjo, also known as mahou shoujo) belong to a sub-genre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga. Magical girl stories feature young girls with superhuman abilities, forced to fight evil and protect the Earth. In Ojamajo Doremi...
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| x News |
News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the...
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| x Panel game |
A panel game is a game show, particularly popular in the United Kingdom, in which a panel of celebrities compete — either in teams or individually. It is usually chaired by another celebrity. The genre has a lengthy history on both radio and...
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| x Chivalric romance |
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As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was particularly current in aristocratic literature of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, that narrated fantastic stories...
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| x Fantasy television |
Fantasy television is a genre of television featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy television programs are often based on tales from mythology and folklore, or are adapted...
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