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thematic criteria, as in literary genres, film genres, music genres, comics genres, etc. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining...

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized...

by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters...

A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the...

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...

A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They...

is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts. Genre is the term...

Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its...

off-kilter or "unstable" beats, as well as its eclectic, colorful blend of genres including hip-hop, electro-funk, 8-bit, jazz fusion, glitch, and crunk....

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...

Footwork, also called juke, or Chicago juke, is a genre of electronic dance music derived from ghetto house with elements of hip hop, first appearing...

Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities...

called genre works, genre scenes, or genre views) may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the term genre art specify...

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...

Genre studies is an academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critical theory in several different fields, including art, literature...

In the book-trade, genre fiction, also known as formula fiction, or commercial fiction, encompasses fictional works written with the intent of fitting...

genre film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Genre film may refer to: A film conforming to a well-defined film genre Genre Films, aka Kinberg Genre...

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...

Genre Films, usually credited as Kinberg Genre, is an American production company founded by filmmaker Simon Kinberg. Genre Films in April 2010 signed...

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...

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...

Pop music, or simply pop, is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom...

Harem (ハーレムもの, hāremumono; "harem works") is a genre of light novels, manga, anime, and video games focusing on a main character surrounded by multiple...

genre works are also referred to as cross-genre, multi-genre, mixed genre, or fusion genre. Some hybrid genres have acquired their own specialised names...

genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or magical elements, often including completely imaginary realms and creatures. The genre's roots...

Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms...

Genre: Sadboy is a collaborative extended play by American rappers MGK and Trippie Redd. It was released on March 29, 2024. MGK and Trippie Redd are both...

Judicial genre is a particular category of written expression of legal opinions. It shares aspects of associated with distinct Literary genre that are...

triplet percussion arrangements. It shares the same name as the Jamaican genre that influenced both it and dubstep, which originally derived from dub,...

Genre-busting, or genre-defying, is a term used occasionally in reviews of written work, music and visual art and refers to the author or artist's ability...

collective Working on Dying with members such as Bnyx. By the 2020s, the genre had developed through the influence of Carti's 2020 album Whole Lotta Red...

The Northern or Northwestern is a genre in various arts that tell stories set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America...

qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama,...

Nettspend, Yhapojj, Yuke, Fakemink, Maxon Margiela, YT and EsDeeKid. The genre achieved particularly significant success within the United Kingdom, where...

A video game genre is a specific category of games related by similar gameplay characteristics. Video game genres are not usually defined by the setting...

In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated...

Pastoralia is a genre of written practical and theoretical aids aimed at pastors, parish priests and curates that proliferated in Western Europe in the...

Snake is a genre of action video games where the player maneuvers the end of a growing line, often themed as a snake. The player must keep the snake from...

distant future of entropic decay is called entropic romance. The Dying Earth genre differs from the apocalyptic subgenre in that it deals not with catastrophic...

(alternatively spelled bennah, or called ditti) is a genre of Antiguan and Barbudan music. Benna is a calypso-like genre, characterized by scandalous gossip and a...

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy...

The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle...

Genre analysis may refer to: Genre criticism Genre studies This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Genre analysis. If an internal...

No Genre is the fourth extended play (EP) by South Korean boy band BoyNextDoor, released on May 13, 2025, through KOZ Entertainment. Titled with an assertion...

Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic scientific or...

Hip-hop (also known as rap music or simply rap) is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s alongside an associated subculture created...

Sega (French: séga) is one of the major music genres of Mauritius and Réunion. It is a complete performance art, involving music, story-telling and traditional...

dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced...

Deuda (Nepali: देउडा) or Deuda Khel is a Nepali genre of song and dance, originated by Khas community and performed in the Sudurpashchim and Karnali provinces...

Julien Michele Genre (born 17 September 1989) is an Italian curler. Julien Genre at World Curling https://www.fisg.it/web/match/?id=3157(in Italian) https://www...

Bomba was a Filipino film genre, characterized by its gratuitous use of sex scenes. It was most popular in the late 1960s, and was a focal point of cultural...

music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a music genre originating from the United States. It is known for its ballads and dance...

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots...

Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science...

Harawi is an ancient traditional genre of Andean music and also indigenous lyric poetry. Harawi was widespread in the Inca Empire and now is especially...

of Sound, the Velvet Underground, and psychedelic pop of the 1960s, the genre originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s mainly among British acts who...

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological...

bringing distinct sounds and identities that broadened the genre's appeal. However, the "indie" genre as a musical style with a "non-mainstream" connotation...

popular salsa dance in the late 1960s which stemmed from the Latin music genre of salsa. The rise of disco in the early 1970s led to dance music becoming...

In Defense of The Genre is the third studio album by American rock band Say Anything. The album artwork was provided by Jeff Smith, an artist primarily...

Two-tone, or 2 tone, also known as ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican...

Hepburn: bōizu rabu), also known by its abbreviation BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships...

Iambus, or iambic poetry, was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars...

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...

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes...

Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre is the seventh studio album by American progressive metal band Periphery. It was released on March 10, 2023, through...

A hierarchy of genres is any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value. In literature, the...

the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: ..  An adventure is an event or series of events that happens...

gospel, and rock in our tapestry." A previous 2016 AMA definition of the genre included rhythm and blues, with additional comments that Americana music...

A Biblical genre is a classification of Bible literature according to literary genre. The genre of a particular Bible passage is ordinarily identified...

metal artists with articles on Wikipedia. For female singers of other rock genres, see List of female rock singers. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O...

greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop. The term's original...

Genre criticism is a method within rhetorical criticism that analyzes texts in terms of their genre: the set of generic expectations, conventions, and...

仙俠; simplified Chinese: 仙侠; pinyin: xiānxiá; lit. 'immortal heroes') is a genre of Chinese fantasy heavily inspired by Chinese mythology and influenced...

Beautiful and Innocent: Female Same-Sex Intimacy in the Japanese Yuri Genre (PDF) (PhD). University of Trier Department of Linguistics, Literature and...

notable Christian music artists, organized by music genre. Note: Because classifying music by genre can be arbitrary, these groupings are generalized and...

"Genre" is the fifth episode in the third season of the HBO science fiction dystopian thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on April...

The malagueña (Spanish pronunciation: [malaˈɣeɲa]) is a genre of folk music from eastern Venezuela, most notably from the island of Margarita. It is characterized...

This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be...

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...

Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each package...

is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre that began in the 1960s and flourished throughout the early to mid 1970s...

This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into...

preferred the term romance. Such romances should not be confused with the genre fiction romance novel, which focuses on romantic love. M. H. Abrams and...

Ainu genre painting (アイヌ風俗画, Ainu-fuzokuga) or (アイヌ絵 Ainu-e) is the Japanese art historical term for depictions of Ainu by Wajin, prevalent from the mid-Edo...

The term "journalism genres" refers to various journalism styles, fields or separate genres, in writing accounts of events. Ambush journalism refers to...

Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed in the 1990s out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture. Emerging from breakbeat...

and adolescent anxieties, only rarely exploring more mature themes. The genre dominated the American charts in the period between Elvis Presley's Army...

The South Seas genre is a genre spanning various expressive forms including literature, film, visual art, and entertainment that depicts the islands of...

Internet genre refers to a type of genre explored in multimedia studies. Others include film genre, video game genres and music genre. Genre, in terms...

A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times...

Crónica is a literary genre that combines journalistic reporting with a literary flair. Crónica has evolved over centuries, beginning with the early European...

categorized under J-pop, though talent agencies may label them under the sub-genre "idol pop" for further distinction. Many idol singers find success as groups...

psychedelic hip-hop) is a microgenre that fuses hip-hop with psychedelia. The genre's sound was influenced by psychedelic rock and soul, funk and jazz, utilizing...

called genres without being considered genre fiction. Some authors are seen as writing literary equivalents or precursors to established genres while still...

This is a list of music subgenres of country music. Alternative country Americana Cosmic country Cowpunk Gothic country Roots rock Australian country Bush...

Afro is a genre of Cuban popular music with African themes which gained prominence during the afrocubanismo movement in the early 20th century. It originated...

Found footage is a cinematic technique and film genre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordings...

Label No Genre is an Atlanta, Georgia-based independent record label, founded in 2014, by American recording artist and music producer B.o.B. In September...

public. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such...

punk rock (often shortened to punk) in the mid-1970s. Even though punk genres at times are difficult to segregate, they usually show differing characteristics...

the most famous African songs, "Mbube", which eventually became its own genre. In 1933 Linda began singing with a group of friends called the Evening...

originally derived from the Eurobeat genre. However, the term became a blanket term, covering other music genres—such as the majority of Japanese rock...

Genre magazine (ISSN 1074-5246) was a New York city-based monthly periodical from 1992 to 2009 written for gay men. It was owned by gay press publisher...

This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of...

synthesizers, sub-bass pulses and high frequency squealing sounds. The name of the genre was coined by William Bennett of Whitehouse as part of the sleeve notes...

that developed alongside hyperpop in the late 2010s to early 2020s. The genre is typically made up of artists that share stylistic similarities to Drain...

Action fiction is a genre in literature that focuses on stories involving high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range...

popular from the mid-1930s. Swing represents the most famous era of jazz as a genre of entertainment, before the emergence of modern jazz. Swing bands usually...

photography that emerged in the United States during the mid-1970s. The genre is characterized by a detached, straight photography approach to human-altered...

devoted to this purpose. More specifically, the typical game in the RTS genre features resource-gathering, base-building, in-game technological development...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, often a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a...

A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ˈʃæntiː/) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical...

This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic...

earlier titles. Starting with the release of Resident Evil 4 in 2005, the genre began to incorporate more features from action games and more traditional...

manga as Monster Musume and A Centaur's Life, and has grown into its own genre. Rarely, the monster girls are relatively unchanged from their original...

popularized by American rapper and record producer SpaceGhostPurrp. The genre is characterized by its use of Memphis rap-inspired vocals, chopped and...

(sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic...

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal...

colloquial genre, parody, clownery. The term derives from the French word estrade, a stage for performances. Artists performing in the estrada genre are called...

removed in favor of a more focused player-versus-player experience. The genre blends elements of real-time strategy, role-playing, and action games, combining...

a musical style that was later known as "bubblegum bass". In 2019, the genre experienced a rise in popularity with the virality of the song "Money Machine"...

Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage,...

comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and niche audiences. Anime is a diverse medium with...

most popular commercial genre in Hindi cinema since the 1970s has been the masala film, which freely mixes different genres including action, comedy...

films in this genre are still being produced. The "pink film", or "eroduction" (erotic production) as it was first called, is a cinematic genre without an...

a list of compositions by Claude Debussy categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by...

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles that emerged in the United States and United Kingdom in the mid- to late 1970s. The term...

or kchaka, or kachaka (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈt͡ʃa.ka]) is a musical genre that originated in Paraguay in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is descended...

to describe pamphlets in general, it became primarily applicable to the genre of brief and defamatory attacks on pre-revolutionary French public figures...

Bassline (sometimes referred to as bassline house or 4x4 or niche) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South Yorkshire in the early...

New age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation,...

protagonist, was a key influence on the development of the giant robot genre in Japan. The first anime featuring a giant mecha being piloted by the protagonist...

for "alpha/beta/omega"), is a subgenre of speculative erotic fiction. The genre supposes the existence of a dominance hierarchy among humans as similar...

file to have at most one genre out of a fixed list. Genre definitions 0-79 follow the ID3 tag specification of 1999. More genres have been successively...

Asphalt Jungle (1950), which according to Film Genre 2000, "almost single-handedly popularized the genre for mainstream cinema". It featured robbers whose...

capture the listener's attention. Sentimental ballads are found in most music genres, such as pop, R&B, soul, country, folk, rock and electronic music. Usually...

primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music...

Bon chic, bon genre (French for 'good style, good class'; IPA: [bɔ̃ ʃik bɔ̃ ʒɑ̃ʁ]) is an expression used in France to refer to a subculture of stylish...

internationally and are considered one of the most influential acts in the genre. They became the first Southeast Asian act to be nominated for a Billboard...

anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the...

Publishing since 2010. The books are about albums from various musical genres. As of 2025, 196 books have been published in the main series. Six additional...

murders to write a screenplay that satirized the clichés of the slasher genre popularized by films such as Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and...

Breakthrough of the Year award at the DJ Awards. The genre is both a sub-genre as well as fusion genre of afro house, there are also opinions that it is...

Wuxia (武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ], lit. 'martial arts and chivalry') is a genre of Chinese fiction and low fantasy concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient...

fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such...

This is a bibliography of reference works on film by genre. Brode, Douglas (1 February 2003). Boys and Toys: Ultimate Action. Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-2381-1...

directed by Italians. The majority of the films in the spaghetti Western genre were international co-productions by Italy and Spain, and sometimes France...

Ska (/skɑː/; Jamaican Patois: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae...

comparable to that of Tsurezuregusa by the Japanese monk Yoshida Kenkō. The genre flourished in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The following authors...

Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s...

literature, the dative. In the imperial period, the elogium became a literary genre: texts were collected by Marcus Terentius Varro and Titus Pomponius Atticus...

musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including drum and bass, dubstep, trap, break, happy hardcore, trance,...

and was released in 1996. It is credited for defining the survival horror genre and returning zombies to popular culture. With Resident Evil 4 (2005), the...

as HandzUp!, and also known as dancecore) is an electronic dance music genre that emerged in Germany during the early 2000s. It features high tempos...

primarily sample-based genre, drawing from pop music and internet memes for its sample material, and implements aspects of various genres of EDM, such as Jersey...

bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn] ) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist...

History is one of the three main genres in Western theatre alongside tragedy and comedy, although it originated, in its modern form, thousands of years...

Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)". Grove Music Online. 2001. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.53045...

originated as an ironic variant of chillwave, which was one of the first music genres to develop primarily through the Internet. The style also evolved from 2000s...

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality...

appearing in 1991, while the modern sound of trap emerged in 1999. The genre takes its name from the Atlanta term "trap house", a drug house. Trap music...

American cinema in the 1950s. The costume drama is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance...

metonym) for poetry. Some poetry types are unique to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes...

an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or...

highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. The top...

subgenres of independent music which combine its characteristics with other genres, such as indie pop, indie rock, indie folk, and indie electronic. Additionally...

from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. As a...

This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...

an American singer-songwriter. Known for her diaristic songwriting and genre explorations, she is regarded as a prominent figure in influencing contemporary...

garnered critical acclaim and has been described as "genre-bending", drawing on various genres including electronic music, trip hop, R&B, hyperpop, and...

Transgender pornography is a genre of pornography featuring transsexual or transgender actors. The majority of the genre features trans women, but trans...

Influences range from electronic-based genres like ambient house and synth-pop, to alternative music genres such as shoegaze, industrial, ethereal wave...

AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest American films in ten classic film genres. Presented by the American Film Institute (AFI), the lists were unveiled...

#liminalspaces hashtag had over two billion views. Following the expansion of the genre, other forms of media have also drawn on liminal imagery. A found footage...

film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element...

typically use through an ideal alter ego into which they can transform. The genre emerged in 1962 with the manga Himitsu no Akko-chan, followed by Sally the...

musicians. Contents Genre Instrument Location or nationality See also Lists of a cappella groups Lists of blues musicians by genre List of Christian bands...

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...

artists from Puerto Rico since the early 1990s. The culture surrounding the genre includes distinct dance styles, most notably “perreo” also known as sandungueo...

of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. A large number of...

is particularly recognized for her leading roles in romantic comedies, a genre she dominated during the 1990s. Dubbed "America's Sweetheart" by the media...

refer to: Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre Thriller (album)...

Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work. Masala films emerged in the 1970s and are still being created as of the...

The revisionist Western is a sub-genre of the Western fiction. Called a post-classical variation of the traditional Western, the revisionist subverts...

Kaliyan. Although it is not so common in singing, it became a particular genre of Punjabi music. Kali is sung by only few Punjabi singers like Kuldeep...

interchangeably with "pastiche", "parody", and the 17th and 18th century genre of the "mock-heroic". Burlesque depended on the reader's (or listener's)...

Punk genres can refer to: Punk rock subgenres, subgenres to punk rock music Literary punk genres, see Cyberpunk derivatives This disambiguation page lists...

of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana genre in the 1990s. Her music united both country and rock audiences...

Reggae (/ˈrɛɡeɪ/ ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also refers to the modern popular music of Jamaica and its...

The chilena is a Mexican musical genre from the Costa Chica coastal regions of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, although its influence also...

late 1992. It is recognised as being one of the direct precursors of the genre now known as drum and bass. By late 1992, breakbeat hardcore was beginning...

List of genres of subgenres, micro, and umbrella terms of rap music. Roots of hip-hop Old-school hip-hop New-school hip-hop Golden age hip-hop Alternative...

1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal. In 1981, three of the "Big Four" thrash...

Chicago, especially with the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples. The genre garnered mainstream attention in 2012 following the success of pioneering...

cine kinki (meaning "delinquency cinema") is a Spanish exploitation film genre that was most popular at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s. The films...

are played in professional competitions, usually fall into a few major genres. The majority of esports titles are fighting games, first-person shooters...

Erotic fiction is a part of erotic literature and a genre of fiction that portrays sex or sexual themes, generally in a more literary or serious way than...

Reitman commented, "We want to make unusual films, and anything that turns a genre on its ear interests Dan and I." Karyn Kusama took over as director in January...

Metalcore is a broadly defined music genre combining elements of heavy metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular...

This is a list of notable guitarists, organized by genre. Robbie Basho John Fahey Leo Kottke Peter Lang Blind Blake Big Bill Broonzy Blind Boy Fuller...

Emo (/ˈiːmoʊ/ EE-moh) is a genre of rock music that combines musical characteristics of hardcore punk with emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged...

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather...

A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction work focused on the relationship and romantic love between two people, often concluding with an emotionally...

Norse and Greco-Roman mythology) as well as numerous songs celebrating the genre and its core audience. The band is also known for a loud and emphatic sound...

elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction and science...

whether the novel ignited the genre or if it was lifted by its inevitable rise. They agree it highlighted the genre's key features, like the placement...

action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. An action adventure game can be...

Action RPG or ARPG) is a video game genre that combines core elements from both the action game and role-playing game genres. Action role-playing games emphasize...

remote cloud gaming. Video games are also classified into a wide range of genres based on their style of gameplay and target audience. The first video game...

sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows Hardcore (electronic dance music genre) Early hardcore Happy hardcore Mainstream hardcore Hardcore hip hop Hardcore...

television and analog recordings. It is an offshoot of the found footage film genre, said to have its origins in online horror of the late 2000s and early 2010s...

sorcery is a literary genre that emerged from the early 20th century by blending elements from the Adventure and Horror genres with major influences from...

The following is a list of compositions by Johannes Brahms, classified by genre and type of work. The table is sortable (click on header of "#" column)...

Post-punk (or postpunk) is a loosely defined music genre and period that emerged in the late 1970s in the wake of punk rock. The concept was originally...

known as Search Action (探索型アクション, Tansaku-Gata Akushon) in Japan, is a sub-genre of action-adventure games focused on nonlinear exploration and guided progression...

(also known as electro-funk, and sometimes referred to as electro-pop) is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. It is defined...

US. Glam rock declined after the mid-1970s, but influenced other musical genres including punk rock, post-punk, gothic rock and glam metal. The new romantic...

Bisexual pornography is a genre of pornography that most typically depicts men and at least one woman who all perform sex acts on each other. While a...

portrayed in pornographic films. Originating in Japan in the 1980s, the genre subsequently spread to North America and Europe, and crossed over into gay...

The serena (evening song) is a minor Old Occitan lyric genre. Despite the name, it is not a serenade. Rather, it is a counterpart to the alba (dawn song)...

Fifth gospel is a literary genre focusing on fictional transfigurations of Jesus. The term has been coined by Theodore Ziolkowski. According to Ziolkowski...

added to other genres. Pure bullet hell games remain a niche genre due to their high level of difficulty. The origin of the bullet hell genre is attributed...

horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed the films Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005). Roth continued to work in the horror genre, directing...

generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence...

instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), musical instrument, nationality...

South African subgenre of house music that started as a niche underground genre involving elements of kwaito, tribal house, deep house, and soulful house...

retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and...

known as giant robot or simply robot, is a genre of anime and manga that feature mecha in battle. The genre is broken down into two subcategories; "super...

Slipstream is a literary genre or category of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction, or otherwise does...

fiction style Cozy fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy fiction Cozy game, a genre of video games Cozy mystery, a subgenre of crime fiction Cozy Cole (1909–1981)...

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by...

recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, by genre, by company and by location. List of record labels: 0–9 List of record labels:...

"Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the Shutter Island soundtrack reinforce...

argued that Le Guin played a large role in both broadening the genre and helping genre writers achieve mainstream recognition. The Earthsea books are...

The following is a list of television formats and genres. Television program formats: clip docufiction documentary single (one-time) episode made-for-TV...

mannerisms, homoerotic lyrical content, dance beats and lisping vocals, the genre was pioneered during the late 1990s. During its initial popularity, sass...

methods of classifying video games, alongside the system of video game genres commonly used by retailers and player communities. Solomon puts forward...

party and culture event in the Bronx; Helping to spark the rise of the genre. However many hip-hop pioneers and historians contend that hip-hop did not...

beginning of the world up to the present and was an especially popular genre of historiography in medieval Europe. The universal chronicle differs from...

Genre is a 1996 animated meta-comedy short film by animator Don Hertzfeldt, his second 16mm student film, produced at the age of 19. The 16mm short combines...

music") is a form of popular music originating in South Korea. The music genre that the term is used to refer to colloquially emerged in the 1990s as a...

music, regardless of genre, that uses Western pop musical instruments, such as the guitar, piano, trumpet, etc. Afropop is a genre of music that combines...

supporting up to 3840 × 2160 pixel (roughly 4 kilopixels wide) resolutions. 4X A genre of strategic video games, short for "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate"...

important collections are the Études, Op. 10 and 25 (which are a staple of that genre for pianists), and the 24 Preludes, Op. 28 (a cycle of short pieces paired...

Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2021. "Genre Definitions". Mobygames. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved...

Romance comics, genre of comics of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the main characters Romance film, a genre of film of which...

extreme fetishism, or both. The genres and sexual intensity of videos is mainly determined by demand. Depending on the genre of the film, the on-screen appearance...

other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales...

(especially Spanish) music. Due to the syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often considered one of the richest and most influential...

more for the road. Torch-singing is more a niche (segment within a genre) than a genre and can stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing;...

who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with NME's C86 cassette in the United...

imbalances, and transgressive or taboo elements. Unlike traditional romance, the genre centers relationships in which behaviors such as control, coercion, or violence...

setting These books describe how to design and play campaigns in a particular genre, such as fantasy, science fiction or detective fiction. William H. Stoddard...

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name...

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a hybrid genre that combines elements of comedy and drama. In film, as well as scripted television...

reminiscent of dying. Dark humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors...

law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators (PIs)...

refers to a genre of Iranian films that deals with various aspects of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–1988. Although little noticed in the West, the genre has produced...

Rhapsody No.2 on folk motives by Lysenko, inspired by the popular genre of dumka...

Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical...

Softcore gay pornography also exists; which at one time constituted the genre, and may be produced as beefcake pornography directed toward heterosexual...

in the genre are considered a rarity in the modern day, although many games of other genres contain rail shooter segments. The rail shooter genre stemmed...

The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern...

topic is particular to school yards and neighborhood streets. Each of these genres and their subtypes is intended to organize and categorize the folklore artifacts;...

scenes can differ from film to film. Erotic thrillers emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s, bolstered by the popular success of Fatal Attraction...

crust) is a fusion genre of anarcho-punk and extreme metal that originated in the early to mid-1980s in England. Originally, the genre was primarily mid-tempo...

came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining...

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking...

Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre, or even gender, specific. Beginning with 1970, supporting actors in comedy...

and Uruguay Cifra is a genre of traditional melody with accompaniment, associated with usually improvised lyrics. In this genre the lyrics are improvised...

emphasis on through-composed structure rather than traditional song forms. The genre has additionally been described as bearing similarities to post-rock, as...

literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical...

genre in which it is used. The instrument used to accompany kabuki has a thin neck, facilitating the agile and virtuosic requirements of that genre....

Popular Genres (2011) found that The Terminator belonged to and was the originator of the term tech-noir. Both authors applied the term as a film genre to...

Confusion of Genders (French: La Confusion des genres) is a 2000 French drama film starring Pascal Greggory. It was directed by Ilan Duran Cohen. Two actors...

A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime. It is a subgenre of crime film, that may involve...

(1985) and the subsequent Super Mario series were the defining games for the genre, with horizontally scrolling levels and the player controlling a named character...

The most infamous and influential title (which set the standards of the genre) is a Canadian production, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974). Its surprise...

define a genre in Japan. Hentai is defined differently in English. The Oxford Dictionary Online defines it as "a subgenre of the Japanese genres of manga...

"re-envisioning" of the original Dawn of the Dead, aiming to reinvigorate the zombie genre for modern audiences. They bought the rights from co-producer Richard P...

Supernatural horror film is a genre that combines aspects of supernatural and horror film. Supernatural occurrences in such films often include ghosts...

Progressive rock (shortened to prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United States and United Kingdom...

highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Paramount...

Drum and bass (D&B), also known as drum 'n' bass (DnB or D'n'B), is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the United Kingdom in the early...

Lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization. It began as a subgenre...

The picaresque novel is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, usually of low social class, who lives by...

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; Virgil's Aeneid; and the anonymous Beowulf. The genre has inspired the adjective epic as well as derivative works in other mediums...

A swashbuckler is a genre of European adventure literature that focuses on a heroic protagonist stock character who is skilled in swordsmanship, acrobatics...

cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films. There were films covering many genres, including crime fiction, espionage, comic book or comic strip characters...

Wolfenstein 3D, they shifted to, and helped popularize, the first-person shooter genre. After ZeniMax Media acquired id Software, including the Wolfenstein franchise...

Nowhere (2010), and a succession of films in the action, thriller, and horror genres. Swain attended Malibu High School in Malibu, California. Her parents separated...

True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including detailing the actions of people associated with and affected...

Historical drama, or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and notable people. Some historical dramas are docudramas...

accelerated their spread. Dank and surrealist memes are some of the newer genres, with newer formats like short-form videos popularized by platforms like...

The diss track as a medium of its own was popularized within the hip-hop genre, fueled by the hip-hop rivalry phenomenon (especially the East Coast–West...

rappers that got him into the genre of hip hop as a child were Ludacris, Eminem and DMX, with Baker gaining interest in the genre after listening to DMX's...

11, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2025. Cortez, Marcuz. "The "Dad Rock" Genre". KTSW Blog. KTSW 89.9. Retrieved April 23, 2026. "Ultimate Father's Day...

powers and battle similarly powered criminals known as supervillains. The genre primarily falls between hard fantasy and soft science fiction in the spectrum...

often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been described as the first novel, or at least the first English...

Glitch is a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the 1990s, distinguished by the deliberate use of glitches in audio media and other...

1850s. While game boards are a necessary and sufficient condition of this genre, card games that do not use a standard deck of cards, as well as games that...

Visual novels are a video game genre of Japanese origin focused on presenting a story. Progress is made via means such as clicking, tapping or pressing...

(Free. Multi-genre.) The Darkest Files (2025) (Post-war) When We Disappear (TBA, 2026?) The Train: Escape to Normandy (1987) (Multi-genre) Castlevania:...

shoot 'em up genre was established by the hit arcade game Space Invaders, which popularised and set the general template for the genre in 1978, and has...

referenced as another example of the "Henshin (transforming) Heroes" genre. Usually, the genre revolves around a technological theme where technology, in the...

young-looking girl character in Japanese anime and manga; subjects of the lolicon genre Loli may also refer to: Peter Loli (born 1980), Australian rugby union player...

complex psychological themes and narratives. Similar with these psychological genres, but rather than using imagery to provoke fear, suspense or terror, they...

Cozy mysteries (or cosy mysteries) are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and...

Western genre. Erotic Italian thrillers, or giallo, produced by directors such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento in the 1970s, influenced the horror genre worldwide...

horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as television and home media releases. The Saturn Awards...

novelist is an author or writer of novels. Novelists can also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists...

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The origins of rock and roll are rooted...

Cannibal films, alternatively known as the cannibal genre or the cannibal boom, are a subgenre of horror films made predominantly by Italian filmmakers...

culture and attempt to capture the era's atmosphere and celebrate it. The genre developed in the mid-to late 2000s through French house producers, as well...

musical genres. Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have...

elements of rape. The genre is well known enough in Japan that it is the subject of parody. In the 21st century, Japanese films of this genre have become recognized...

revenant type. In modern popular culture, zombies often appear in horror genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a zombie is a dead...

opera, the soloist centered concerto genre, the organized sonata form as well as the large scale vocal-centered genres of oratorio and cantata. The fugue...

comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy...

Erich Deutsch or NSA authorities Genre – the musical genre to which the piece belongs. This has been omitted when the genre is self-explanatory or unnecessary...

legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission...

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from the techno and EBM scene in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly...

The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by music genre. The Album of the Year award is presented to the performer, featured artists...

Comedy horror (also called horror comedy) is a literary, television and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been...

from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined...

characterised by its use of unwanted noise as a primary musical element. The genre has roots in early 20th century avant-garde music, but later drew influence...

1999, with the SyFy Portal Genre Awards, later shortened to the Portal Awards, Airlock Alpha handed out fan-vote awards for genre television and movies until...

multiple home video (VHS, DVD, video on-demand and Blu-ray disc) runs by genre film distributors in the 45 years since its production. In an old mine outside...

Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Western Europe. It combines many...

playwright contemporaries, the histories of Shakespeare define the theatrical genre of history plays. The historical plays also are biographies of the English...

of experimental music which emerged in the 1970s. During the 1980s, the genre splintered into a range of offshoots collectively labelled post-industrial...

Noisecore is a fusion genre that merges hardcore punk and noise rock. Originally emerging in the mid-1980s, the genre is characterized by chaotic song...

many genres he believes are reflected in the film. Although Paul Arendt of the BBC finds that "No Country ... can be enjoyed as a straightforward genre thriller"...

Legal drama, also called courtroom drama or law procedural, is a genre of film and television that generally focuses on narratives regarding legal practice...

sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the...

culturally exotic is encapsulated in Roots magazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there". There are several conflicting definitions...

Chinese poetry genres are those genres which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Classical Chinese. Some of these genres are attested to...

Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) are pioneers of the genre, while The Witch (2015) and Midsommar (2019) sparked renewed interest in...

boundary, particularly works that fall under certain experimental storytelling genres—including some postmodern fiction, autofiction, or creative nonfiction like...

Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre-, or even gender-, specific. Beginning with 1970, supporting actresses in...

hip-hop genres List of house genres List of ID3v1 genres List of industrial music genres List of jazz genres List of microgenres List of musical genres of...

music that was popular outside the United States, such as various Latin genres (e.g., bossa nova, cha-cha-cha, mambo as in Cal Tjader's fine Latin jazz...

robot genre; designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z; as well as helping pioneer the magical girl genre with...

"wannabe" Japanese or "white" Japanese). bakunyū (爆乳, "enormous breasts"): A genre of pornographic media focusing on the depiction of women with large breasts...

short stories, novellas, novelettes, and stand-alone novels from diverse genres such as science fiction, horror, fantasy, or even a murder mystery. [Martin's...

backdrop of space warfare, alien civilizations and galactic empires. The sub-genre is sometimes thought of as a futuristic homage to earlier adventure sagas...

the third edition in 2022. The catalogue groups compositions by genre. Even within a genre, compositions are not necessarily collated chronologically. In...

worked mainly in British and Italian films, most notably in the horror genre. She was born on the night of 3 November 1951 in Burma to a Burmese mother...

broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality...

Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film...

innovation was the introduction of specialized genre pulps, with each magazine focusing on a particular genre, such as detective stories, romance, etc. At...

thinking about a career in film. Cuse is known for his groundbreaking cross-genre storytelling, pioneering work in interactive media, collaborative achievements...

including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game genre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés...

of McLean's music is in the folk rock genre, he has experimented with easy listening, country, and other genres as well. McLean's grandfather and father...

Gorgoroth. This Norwegian scene did much to define black metal as a distinct genre, and inspired other scenes in Finland (Beherit, Archgoat, Impaled Nazarene);...

to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered...

Canción ("song") is a popular genre of Latin American music, particularly in Cuba, where many of the compositions originate. Its roots lie in Spanish...

The fighting game genre involves combat between characters, often (but not necessarily limited to) one-on-one battles. The mechanics of combat in fighting...

different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and...

usually defines music as an all-encompassing term used to describe diverse genres, styles, and traditions. This is not the case worldwide, and languages such...

from the genre has been described as a parody on consumerism and often includes retro computer imagery to reflect on 1990s aesthetics. The genre had its...

become the catch-all term for music with racist lyrics as well as a specific genre of rock music derived from Oi! The lyrics can focus on racism and antisemitism;...

March 2014. Vijay George (12 April 2012). "Arts / Cinema : Battle of the genres". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 25 January 2013. Nair, Manoj. "Malayalam...

based on film genre. Each movie is eligible in only one genre, aside from non-English-language films, which can be included in both their genre and the respective...

Brazilian funk, or simply funk, is a Brazilian hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, taking influences from musical styles such as Miami...

Japan, the term has come to be used to describe a commonly pornographic genre of eroge, manga, and anime, which includes characters that show primary...

An extraction shooter is a variant of the tactical shooter genre. It is generally defined by the gameplay style most notably seen in Escape from Tarkov...

epic, the poem defies simple genre classification because of its varying themes and tones. Ovid took inspiration from the genre of metamorphosis poetry. Although...

breakout. While it can involve influences from a wide array of musical genres, it remains a subset of pop music, focusing on catchy melodies and marketability...

direction and score, many critics credit the film as pioneering the slasher genre, alongside other films such as Psycho (1960), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre...

with Western electric instrumentation. Raï emerged as a major world music genre in the late 1980s. In the years just following World War I, the Algerian...

riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The genesis of the genre dates back to the 1970s when early heavy metal, hard rock and punk rock...

revitalize the genre carried out by some famous artists: Pixinguinha, Waldir Azevedo and Jacob do Bandolim. Samba as a musical genre emerged in the early...

role-playing game or simulation RPG (both abbreviated SRPG), is a video game genre that combines core elements of role-playing video games with those of tactical...

Grunge (originally known as the Seattle Sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of Washington...

Garage punk is a rock music genre combining the influences of garage rock, punk rock, and often other genres; the genre took shape in the indie rock underground...

character. This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. Since the genre's inception...

Deathcore is a fusion genre that combines metalcore with elements of death metal. The style typically includes metalcore breakdowns, simplified death...

literary mode Action fiction, a type of genre fiction Action game, a genre of video game Action film, a genre of film Action (1921 film), a film by John...

A microgenre is a specialized or niche genre, often used to describe narrowly defined subcategories within music, literature, film, or art. The term has...

due to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi then returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II (which added slapstick humor to the over-the-top...

often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theater (for instance Shakespeare's...

dynamics". San Diego–based bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow pioneered the genre in the early 1990s, and it was developed in the late 1990s mainly by bands...

swiftly enshrined superhero comics as the defining comics genre of American comic books. The genre lost popularity in the 1950s but re-established its domination...

Kilalaky is a traditional music genre and dance from the Menabe region in southwestern Madagascar. It is recognized as one of the most energetic and popular...

Historical or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based on historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately...

tactical RPG genre, or "simulation RPG" genre as it is known in Japan, with its blend of basic RPG and strategy game elements. The genre became with the...

The new weird is a literary genre that emerged in the 1990s through early 2000s with characteristics of weird fiction and other speculative fiction subgenres...

(ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987. The Age EG Awards are...

SyFy Genre Awards: Best Actor/Television Nathan Fillion, 2006 SyFy Genre Awards: Best Supporting Actor/Television Adam Baldwin, 2006 SyFy Genre Awards:...

with Conway Twitty," Twitty's early work primarily explored the rockabilly genre. As the 1960s progressed, his musical direction shifted, marking his foray...

tremolo, and chorus. It often overlaps with the related genre of shoegaze, and the two genre terms have at times been used interchangeably. Dream pop...

for a number of different uses and contexts, resulting in different music genres. Liturgical as well as more general sacred contexts were important, but...

A road movie is a genre of film in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives....

games, but several games representing other genres were also released. List is divided by video game genre and ordered by initial release date. Only the...

July 1961) is an English filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the action genre, including as the director of Con Air (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)...

Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in...

the Norman Conquest" in 1066; that is, c. 1100–50. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works...

The following is a list of mecha anime, a genre of anime featuring giant robots.   music anime (music is integral part of the plot) BattleTech Gundam...

career spanning over four decades, most notably in the sexploitation film genre. A native of New York City, Wishman began her film career as a hobby after...

1-48, and vocal works, M.49-91, arranging them by genre, and by composition date order within each genre. The CFF catalogue (see § External links) compiled...

took place in the late 1970s, inspired by tabletop role-playing games and genre fiction. The activity spread internationally during the 1980s and has diversified...

depicting a large and muscular male body. Beefcake is also a publication genre. A role a person plays in a performance may be called beefcake. The term...

giallo (Italian: [ˈdʒallo]; pl.: gialli; from giallo, lit. 'yellow') is a genre that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological...

Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud aggression...

considered to be one of the world's top three largest and most prestigious genre film festivals, alongside Fantasia and Fantastic Fest. The festival's origins...

overlapping with, and sometimes considered a subgenre of, gothic rock, the genre was pioneered by bands from the early 1980s Los Angeles punk scene, including...

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music...

New Genres is an artistic movement begun in the early 20th century. The movement is marked by many notable artists who work with a variety of media such...

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvellous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while also incorporating...

game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus...

personal relationships of young adults. Filmmakers associated with the genre include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, the Duplass brothers Mark and Jay...

thrash metal and hip hop. The genre features aggressive vocals, heavy, palm muted guitar riffs and breakdowns. The genre has its origins in late 1980s...

editor, and actor. Regarded as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre, particularly zombie films, he has been described as an "icon" and the "father...

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s...

which often specialize in a particular readership age range or narrative genre. Shōjo manga originated from Japanese girls' culture at the turn of the...

themes into their lyrics. Other early originators and influences on the genre include Tommy Wright III, Gravediggaz, Crustified Dibbs, Flatlinerz, Children...

Contemporary R&B is a popular music genre, originating from African-American musicians in the 1970s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of disco...

Trance Music"". www.listology.com. Argentum. ""Trance music. A definition of genre."". Moodbook.com. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. "Understanding...

title was used as the name of the black metal genre; as a result, Venom were part of the first wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory. Venom...

exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used...

established him as an icon of the horror film genre. He became a staple figure in both mainstream genre film and art house circles, described by one obituary...

gunfights. Sub-genres of martial arts films include kung fu films, wuxia, karate films, and martial arts action comedy films, while related genres include gun...

Continent. She produced songs that contributed to the influence of music genres such as pop and kwaito, with some of her work addressing social issues in...

century), is a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word "gothic", as a pejorative...

history) is a genre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events occur differently from how they did in actual history. The genre commonly...

eleven super-genres in his screenwriters' taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other...

its implications for the nature of humankind. Classic examples of this genre include works such as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895) or Olaf Stapledon's...

performances. Slowcore's influences are diverse, involving various other genres, including folk rock, alternative rock, and dream pop. As a result of these...

Boys' love (BL), a genre of male-male romance media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women, has a robust global fandom. Individuals...

horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre. Craven...

Punk rap is a fusion genre that merges punk rock and hip-hop. The genre has been described as also drawing influences from trap music, heavy metal and...

(Hebrew: סטאלג) was a short-lived genre of erotic literature which flourished in Israel during the early 1960s. The genre consisted of pornographic Nazi...

here. Most are in Hindi but he also sang in several other languages. The genre of song is first, followed by any other singers and the music director or...

of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror. Japanese horror consists of a variety of sub-genres such as psychological...

While sources such as The Guardian and Guitar World describe djent as a genre, some notable musicians including Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Stephen...

UK garage, abbreviated as UKG, is a genre of electronic music which originated in England in the early to mid-1990s. It is defined by percussive, shuffled...

reviews from critics, who praised its pacing, editing, and inventive use of genre elements while criticizing the screenplay and its second half. Despite this...

reflecting the broader skepticism then directed toward the spaghetti Western genre, which was often criticized for its stylisation, violence, and moral ambiguity...

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including...

English Midlands, particularly Stourbridge and Leicester. Musically, the genre incorporated elements of electronic, punk rock, folk and hip hop music into...

Season 2 soundtrack album Fantasy, a genre of speculative fiction also known as fantastic literature. Fantastique, a genre of writing Fantastic (magazine)...

This is a list of music genres and styles, organized alphabetically. It covers a broad range of genres from around the world, including folk, classical...

as indie dance or underground dance in the United States) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely...

as having a simple "chu-chucu-chu" rhythm created by the guacharaca. The genre frequently incorporates brass instruments and piano. In order to properly...

Furry pornography refers to a genre of pornography or erotic material depicting anthropomorphic animal characters engaging in lascivious behavior or sexual...

Soca music, or the "soul of calypso", is a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1970s. It is considered an offshoot of calypso...

two or more of the record charts, which track differing musical styles or genres. In some contexts, the term "crossover" can have negative connotations associated...

The beach party film is an American film genre of feature films which were produced and released between 1963 and 1968, created by American International...

as well as being credited alongside Scream with revitalizing the slasher genre in the 1990s. The film was followed by three sequels – I Still Know What...

Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward...

Select Difficulty, Periphery IV: Hail Stan, Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre and A Pale White Dot. They have also released two EPs: Icarus EP and Clear...

Trip hop is a music genre defined as a psychedelic fusion of hip-hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a...

French meaning 'advance guard' or 'vanguard') identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically...

yīnyuè; Jyutping: zung1man4 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater...

genre. Since the 2000s, isekai novels are increasingly published online on websites like Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Isekai is one of the most popular genres...

is a film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African American or Hispanic American culture. The genre is generally...

Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is...

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...

that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films often feature themes such as...

the form of animals or plants that pose a threat to human characters. The genre generally focuses on ordinary animals that become hostile or unusually aggressive...

series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community. Phrases from it are widely recognised...

The Acts of the Apostles is a genre of early Christian literature, recounting the lives and works of the apostles of Jesus. The Acts (Latin: Acta; Greek:...

require exposure to the infection, most commonly in the form of a bite. The genre originated in the 1968 American horror film Night of the Living Dead, which...

chronologically. A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and...

cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter. His low-budget genre films, known for their distinctive visual flair and stylish technical ingenuity...

abuse, typically by sadistic prison wardens, guards, and other inmates. The genre also features many films in which imprisoned women engage in lesbian sex...

system published by Steve Jackson Games. The system is designed to run any genre using the same core mechanics. The core rules were first written by Steve...

Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music and nerd music characterized by subject matter considered of interest to nerds and geeks. Self-described nerdcore...

and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern...

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots...

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood...

genre that draws on the aesthetics of burlesque, vaudeville and Weimar-era cabaret, generally played by groups with origins in rock music. The genre traces...

associated with a distinctive dance style commonly referred to as jumpen. The genre developed within the broader European hard dance scene and became commercially...

Buddy cop is a film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together...

This is a list of multi-genre conventions. These cons typically do not cater to one particular genre (i.e., anime, science fiction, furry fandom, brony...

As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based music genre characterized by jangling guitars and melodic power pop song structures...

A techno-thriller or technothriller is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action, and war novels. They are defined by...

Amapiano is a genre of music from South Africa that became popular in the early 2020s. It is a hybrid of kwaito, deep house, gqom, jazz, soul, and lounge...

acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan...

– 9 May 2014) was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous...

songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by...

Gibson's influential debut novel Neuromancer helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Frank...

following is a representative list of games classified in the survival genre. Kurt Kalata, SOS / Septentrion (プテントリオン) - Super NES (1993), Hardcore Gaming...

and Balearic house. Artists of the genre are often featured at various summer festivals such as Tomorrowland. The genre was popularized by artists including...

entered the Louvre in 1792 it was given the title of a Fête champêtre, a genre arguably based on this painting. It is believed to display the Renaissance...

is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres. It originates...

friendship and honor. Several of these reviews commented on the style and genre of Eldest, while others considered the possibility of a film adaptation...

Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles. Electropop has been described as a variant of synth-pop...

language dubbing. A 100-minute documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre was produced and directed by Antonio Avati in 1977 titled Kolossal: i magnifici...

Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. The most famous saga-genre is the sagas of Icelanders, which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland...

Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sages and the wise that offer teachings about...

teenagers and was dominated by rock and roll, the most popular musical genre of the period in the United States and which held the first successful radio...

expression, may supplement or replace the normal tempo marking, while in modern genres like electronic dance music, tempo will typically simply be stated in bpm...

A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration, and scavenging elements...

Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era...

Day in the life (or a day in the life, or day in the life of) is a genre of storytelling in which the events occurring in the life of the subject or subjects...