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| Satire |
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Book Subject | Political satire |
Satire is strictly a literary genre, but it is also found in the graphic and performing art. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other...
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| Political satire | Book Subject | Satire |
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians, and public affairs. It has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as...
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| Mecha |
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Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicle controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal. In most fiction in...
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[[Image:Mahuri.svg|thumb|Moe-style illustration of a character combining design elements of Mahoro Andou from Mahoromatic and Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.]] ( in Japanese, but typically or in English) is an abbreviation...
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| Martial arts | Film genre |
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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| Situation comedy | TV Genre | 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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| Humour |
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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular images, stories or situations to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. Yet, people of all ages...
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| Social commentary | Film genre |
Social commentary is the act of rebelling against a government by means of rhetorical propaganda. This is most often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to...
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| Non-fiction | Literary Genre |
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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| History |
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History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archeological discoveries about the past. Recently, there has been an increased interest in oral history, passed down...
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| Music history |
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Literary Genre | 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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| 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...
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| Music theory | Field Of Study |
Music theory is the field of study that deals with the mechanics of music and how music works. It involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more general sense, music theory also often distills and analyzes the elements of...
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| Musicology | Profession | Music history |
Musicology (Greek: μουσικη = "music" and λογος = "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 cultural...
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| Aesthetics of music | Literary Genre | Musicology |
Traditionally, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics concentrated on the quality and study of the beauty and enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music. Aesthetics is a sub-discipline of philosophy, but in recent decades philosophers have...
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| Fiction |
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Fiction is the telling of stories which are not entirely based upon facts. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere,...
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| Fantasy |
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Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. The genre is usually associated with the overall look, feel and themes of the European Middle Ages (including architecture, dress...
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| Young adult literature |
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Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA fiction, or simply YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents, roughly ages 12 to 18.
Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct...
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| Bollywood |
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Bollywood (Hindi: ), is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is...
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| Drama |
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Film genre | Costume drama |
A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put...
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| Sports game |
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Computer Game Genre | Arena football |
A sports game is a computer or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sport. They are extremely popular, the genre including some of the best-selling games.
Almost every familiar sport has been recreated with a game, including...
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| Simulation |
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A simulation is an imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system.
Historically, the...
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| Massively multiplayer online game |
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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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| Comedy-drama | TV Genre |
Comedy-drama, also called dramedy, is a style of television and movie 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 comedy and...
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| 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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| War | Film genre | Action genre | Gulf War |
For the film with Jet Li and Jason Statham, go to War (film).
War film is a film genre concerned with war, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other...
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| Documentary |
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Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to...
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| Novel |
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A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels,...
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| 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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| Musical |
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The musical film is a film genre in which several song sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters. A subgenre of the musical film is the musical comedy, which...
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