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The list Genres includes
Erotica, Western (genre), Film genre, Genre and Slave narrative.
The list consists of 22 members
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Erotica
Media, literature or art dealing substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter
Overview: Erotica is art, literature or photography that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but ...
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Film genre
Classification of films based on similarities in narrative elements
Overview: A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. 0
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Adult animation
Animation genre
Overview: Adult animation, also known as mature animation, and infrequently as adult-oriented animation, is a term of any animated type or media that is catered specifically to adult interests and is mainly targeted ... 0
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Biography
Written account of a person's life
Overview: A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these ... 0
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Fiction
Narrative with imaginary elements
Overview: Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history ... 0
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Police procedural
Subgenre of detective fictionOverview: The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law ... 0
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Western (genre)
Multimedia genre of stories set primarily in the American Old West
Overview: 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 Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier ... 0
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Humour
Tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement
Overview: Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which ... 0
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Genre
Category of creative works based on stylistic and/or thematic criteriaOverview: Genre (French for 'kind, sort') is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage ... 0
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Satire
Genre of arts and literature in the form of humor or ridicule
Overview: Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule ... 0
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Black Gospel music
genre of African-American Christian musicOverview: Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States. It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during ... 0
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Nature writing
nonfiction or fiction prose or poetry about the natural environment, literary genreOverview: Nature writing is nonfiction or fiction prose about the natural environment. It often draws heavily from scientific information and facts while also incorporating philosophical reflection upon various ... 0
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Christian media
multimedia genre and media format featuring a Christian message or moralOverview: Christian media can either refer to Christians who work in secular media, or media that is Christian, or refer to various aspects of mass media which is primarily targeting the Christian demographic. The ... 0
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Popular history
genre of historiographyOverview: Popular history, also called pop history, is a broad genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over ... 0
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Slave narrative
literary work of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in the AmericasOverview: The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist ... 0
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Genre fiction
fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genreOverview: Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal ... 0
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Sports entertainment
Theatrical competition
Overview: 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 a ... 0
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Non-fiction
Type of genre, true worksOverview: Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically ... 0
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Cross-genre
literary genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genresOverview: A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. Hybrid genre works are also referred to as cross-genre, multi-genre, mixed genre, or fusion ... 0
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Domestic realism
literary genreOverview: Domestic realism normally refers to the genre of 19th-century fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women. This body of writing is also known as "sentimental fiction" or "woman's ... 0
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