How To Use Genre In A Sentence

I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name

You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
Compared to say, high fantasy, it is actully pretty hard to find good (or any) material in steampunk (and other smaller genres). Genre dilettante «
But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
The music is fantastic and songs from all genres are covered. The Sun
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
From Wikipedia: A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres, whose purpose is to die soon after being introduced, thus indicating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters. October 2007
Critics saw this move into the thriller genre as an admission of the inauthenticity of his supposedly factual work. Times, Sunday Times
A subcategory of this genre of books is composed of in-depth narrative accounts of the experiences of individual students applying to Ivy League colleges, their every emotional nuance dwelled on in luxuriant detail. Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
Football's most elemental rivalry was providing the defining classic of the genre.
He reinvented the genre of sports writing. Times, Sunday Times
Again, this doesn't actually distinguish fantasy from any other (Romantic and excusatory) commercial genre, but that's not the point here. The Aesthetics of Fat
The present study is divided into three chapters, and each of them deals with one special pheonomeon of musical genre: modification, fusion, and deconstruction.
One of the main advantages of this exhibit is that it showed works from the three main genres of the art - painting, graphics and sculptures.
The album works on all levels thanks to its diversified genres, such as jazz, blues, gospel, bluegrass and zydeco.
It was also a kind of Chartres Cathedral, a perfect embodiment of its genre.
And a general weariness in having the same conversation about genre versus the mainstream that crops up whenever a young'un who hasn't bothered to read anything published on the internet over the last decade gets the bright idea to write in haphazard fashion about a topic that's like the same piece of gum masticated for a month. [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e. How Japan Saw Us
But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry.
He laments the passing of the tradition of European genre filmmaking.
It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
Hardwick acknowledges that moving from romantic comedy / relationship drama to the action genre is a departure for him.
It fights for its own hegemony in literature; wherever it triumphs, the older genres go into decline.
They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption. A Reader's Manifesto
The studios keep making this genre of film, and people still go and see them, but they're getting old fast.
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
As with most games in this niche genre, AE features wailing guitars, canned jazz, and an array of real-world aircraft.
Scotty was only 17 years old when "Clear As Day" was released, making him the youngest male in history to enter at the top of the all-genre chart with a debut album.
Crossing genres from lo-fi slacker rock to Greek chillwave, it felt exciting and fresh at the same time as throwing you back into the past in a disorientating timewarp reminiscent of Gold-era Spandau Ballet. The sax is back
I would say Aliens easily equals some of those other scripts you mentioned in mastering the genre they belong to in that it was somewhat transformative to the genre and the expectations of the genre. AVATAR Reaches $500 Million In Only 32 Days; Worldwide Gross an Astounding $1.62 billion – Collider.com
The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
The Pigman, published in 1968, is still one of the most well-known and widely-taught novels in the genre.
Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange. November 2006
He takes his place in the new date-unspecific, genre-bending scheme of things with assurance rather than gaucheness. Times, Sunday Times
Genre scenes and landscape played an important role in the 19th century.
What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot.
He is credited with creating a sub-genre of the 1960s sexploitation flick called the ‘nudie-kinkie’, a series of films which pretty much do what they say on the can.
The comedia lacrimosa is a minor genre.
They imitated the Hollywood genres of comedy, melodrama, musicals and Westerns.
On narrative discourse, the existing classification dig out the profound implication imbedded in every genre.
As their name suggests, ‘romances of real life’ denote a self-consciously oxymoronic genre.
Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
Traditional MMOG tropes such as repeatable quests and mob-farming are totally inappropriate to the horror genre. MMOG Nation » The Setting is the Story II
The two genres don't play off each other or give each other a fresh spin; they awkwardly coincide and never truly cross-fertilize. Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest
A satellite radio subscription, offering every imaginable musical genre, lets you bypass the unlistenable hypermass music on nearly every radio station.
Nonetheless, he applauds how Edinburgh and Glasgow have both moved away from traditional jazz in order to encompass wider definitions of the genre.
If your taste in genre is the ‘coming of age’ story rather than Westerns, thrillers or campus novels, you will quite possibly love this book.
Give people exactly what they remember a genre is all about, add a smidgeon of irony/contemporary cultural reference to taste, count the money.
In addition to providing Tarbell with subjects for portraiture, Emeline and her siblings served as models for figures in genre paintings of leisured genteel life.
Not only is the film a technically impressive feat, the plot so far suggests a certain cleverness on a higher level than a simple, stock genre flick.
A sample of both albums, and soul, jazz, funk, and of course, blues genres covered, current fans were satisfied and likely new fans gained, as a night of refreshing and heartfelt ideas came to an end.
We can only guess what the great Dutch genre painters really thought they were doing.
By choosing to anchor her fiction within the realms in which most crime occurs, Mina eschews the glamorous settings of other, less realistic novels of the genre.
As for the gameplay, senior producer Jeronimo Barrera took the "brawler" genre -- 2-D fighting games like Double Dragon that had become passe -- and spectacularly reinvented it by incorporating advances from its more recent titles, most notably the ability to give orders to one's fellow gang members. Why Rockstar Is the Leader of the Pack
Poems of other genre are replete with allusions to incidents and personalities drawn from jataka stories.
Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist in the 20th century but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
Our advisory ism; and, if applicable, genres to which the work board members-educational professionals - might have belonged, such as Gothicism or Ro - helped pare down the list for each volume. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
I had longed for that twisted suffusion of cells, that genre of lovemaking that only our kind can do. Magic X
This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
This genre was always at the bottom of the hierarchy, unworthy of the superior attention reserved for history painting.
And one of its vigorous genres is precisely the antinovel.
The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
Dance music, as a big, sprawling, genre-busting whole, is having the time of its life. Times, Sunday Times
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
A programme of jazz and classical music, showing the saxophone as an instrument of both musical genres.
Training in different genres, and an ability to play -- and improvise -- nonclassical music makes an instrumentalist more employable. Classical Musicians Learn to Improvise
They differ in almost every other respect, but in these shared interests they both belong to the ancient and always fascinating genre of the jeremiad.
The body of work includes portraits, landscapes and genre paintings that exemplify the various periods of Russian Realist art.
In popular books and film then, westerns were a staple: there were a lot of them every year and so they provided a wide, deep genre pool to play in and to invent with.
Like a number of recent American poets who have done a lot to resuscitate genre, narrative, wit, and craft, the student said there needs to be a development of traditional techniques and genres to create more public forms.
Epics and their contemporary shadows, action-adventure tales, are very much phallocentric genres in which women, when they appear at all, are relegated to the roles of damsels in distress, mother-figures, sex objects, or witches, either good or bad. Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king
It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow. Priyadarsini Govind and Nrityagram Dance Ensemble offer intense Indian dance
As a consequence, these genres do not strive to show events in their experiential immediacy and do not use an excessively ornate style of presentation.
However, popularity is not limited to the current materials within the genre.
Film biography, a special film of genre with a long historic tradition, profound aesthetic particularity and stong vitality during the whole development of cinematics.
You've demonstrated zero familiarity with the genre and you've ignored the multiple examples of wizard schools and wizard trappings that pre-exist Willy that have been pointed out repeatedly. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
Led by acclaimed jazz performer Carol Grimes , the group's genre-defying repertoire ranges from Cole Porter classics to ethnic punk.
Some fans say the magazine a series is published in determines the demographic genre of the series, so Yotsuba would be a seinen title. Wednesday poll
When I compared the two artists' work, a smart young friend of mine who is far more into the genre than I blanched a little.
We're far from the satisfactions of a genre that at its coziest promises restoration of a safe-seeming status quo. And Then There Were Ten
But the genre always seems to slip back into a coma.
In keeping with the genre's established recipe, most of its skits are more like comedy rituals than sketches, in that the payoffs usually involve the anticipated repetition of catchphrases.
I had to explain that as a mentor of young adult fiction, I see a lot of genre fiction that fits the genre okay but isn't worth developing further, which is more denigratory than I like to be in an introductory session.
As in most genres of art, the nautical or marine artist is a risk taker.
Marlon Rivera, president of Publicis advertising agency in the Philippines, points to the disappearance of promotional billboards for so-called bomba genre films, which have racy themes and soft-core porn imagery. Preacher Power
Never mind contemporary country music, with its upbeat insipidity, which is to the genre at its best as a giant shopping complex is to the wild terrain eradicated to build it.
Enfin moi les tests de personnalité qui vous disent si vous avez le droit (oui parce qu'a ce niveau c genre on voit que t'es un solitaire tapa le droit de faire l'ecole) ou pas de faire ci ou ca par rapport a votre caractere je trouve ca debile a souhait! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Somehow, writing extremely plot-driven fiction seems to have pushed me over into the borderlands of genre -- in most bookstores my book's shelved with literary fiction, but at least one genre bookstore carries it (Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego) and it was reviewed in Mystery Scene. Archive 2010-05-01
It was in these genre figures that he synthesized the classical and the contemporary in a way that now looks original.
We are a group comprised of 8 musicians looking for a keyboard player with talent in latin genres such as cumbia, charanga, salsa, merengue and bachata. Craigslist | all community in san diego
A fic in the genre of alternative universe, here Sherlock Holmes is a famous chef and Watson is running a struggling family restaurant.
Despite their creativity - whether in modifying Egyptian and Near Eastern forms, or inventing the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture - Greek artists worked in established genres.
The root cause of this kind of organisation within the academies was the dominance of history painting as a genre.
I did an approximation of the focus/genre of the novels from what I could glean from the brief blurbs, and came up with this: Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Mendocino Conference fires up my interest in YA
The Finale is almost symphonic in breadth and nature and the whole quartet is one of the overlooked masterpieces of the genre.
The opening chapter defines various styles of jazz and clarifies the objective of the course: to teach the subgenre of jazz known as ‘smooth’ jazz.
Another musical genre created by African-Americans, the blues, has heavily influenced jazz as well as rock and roll.
It is a long paper genre painting created with highly realistic tactics .
But I agree also with Jeff and the writer of this piece that the artificiality of “genre” versus “literary” needs to be broken down, and the way that works of art borrow from, syncretize, and rework genres needs more acknowledgement. Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities
The site covers just about any type of music you can think of, from rock and country to pop and dance, plus all kinds that can't easily be slotted into one genre or another.
Today, the question marks of celebrity are stinking up the primetime game show circuit, sending that genre into the dumper faster than department stores can send those monochromatic ties back to the warehouses.
In an attempt to please everyone, History seems to have mixed two unmixable genres. The Michigan Daily
Part of what's called the dystopian genre, "Hunger Games" is set in a bleak futuristic world where the government forces teens to fight one another to the death as their parents look on, airs the battle on television and calls it a national holiday. Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit
The genre is not about exploring possibilities, as science fiction does, but about losing ourselves in impossibilities. July 2007
The music genre known as Americana, with roots in early folk and country music, has been popular in certain circles for years, but gained enough widespread attention recently to place the term among other new dictionary entries. StarTribune.com rss feed
This focus on "niceness" in critical approaches to young adult fiction -- a genre almost overwhelmingly produced and consumed by women -- is not accidental. Sarah McCarry: Faking Nice in the Blogosphere: Women and Book Reviews
Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, program pieces and ballets such as Romeo and Juliet.
Yet this Harry is not merely homage and deference to past works, a pastiche of styles and narrative devices like so many other films that seek to emulate previous masters of the genre.
A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the Expecting Rain
Michael Zisman, introduced as "the world's only bebop bandoneonist," contributed "Close Encounters," which also artfully blended the three genres, while an excerpt from Mr. D'Rivera's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" came off like a waltz in which some bandito had stolen the third beat. Holiday Cheer
This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché! NPR Topics: News
Time will tell if this talented director wishes to reinvigorate and reinvent the horror genre further than this.
This piece of 'faction' is in a subgenre of 'defence lobby polemic'. Times, Sunday Times
I saw this much more as a limitation of/trope from the romantic comedy genre in general.
Everything in the shop is handpicked vintage couture, collector pieces (like a variety of crinolines, ball gowns, glittery jeweled handbags, rare footwear), and different genres and styles of kitsch fashion.
The genre was known for its urbane disinclination to perform any icky operations involving hearts: pouring them out, for instance, or affixing them to sleeves.
It was a great role for a genre film - you don't normally get to do much beyond screaming and running.
J'ai des nouvelles de ce coté d'ailleurs puisqu'ajd'hui vers midi et quart, genre l'heure ou tu manges et que personne est censé t'appeler, un monsieur qui ecorche mon nom de famille me demande si je recherche encore un emploi. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Another point getting hashed out over at TEV is what makes something YA (or fantasy or fill in your genre or format.) Archive 2006-08-01
But, no, I don't think you can underestimate the role of publicity as a kind of intertextual indicator of genre etc Not TV Week
These excisable songs are perhaps best described as extraneous genre exercises (most specifically, the just a little bit too cute "I Did What I Did"). Blogtimore, Hon
Defeat is built into the genre.
He does not interpret these genres as distinct entities, however.
Gardener could have easily become a tired spy movie retread, but director Meirelles gives it a major push above the conventions of the genre.
The fertility of his imagination opened up the possibilities of crime as a genre. Times, Sunday Times
The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar.
The story is an exercise in counterfactual genre criticism in which a professor tells his class about the fictitious history and non-existent antecedent of Poe's famous story "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842). REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow
With its insane mix of loves-me-loves-me-nots, switcheroos, flawed motives, crooked laughs and crying babies, it is one of cinema's most buoyant genres.
Although its structure is fairly ordinary for a shonen mecha series, Eureka 7 does serve up one of the oddest variations on the genre: these mecha not only transform but go airboarding, too! Anime News Network
But even love's lament is upbeat in mariachi, a musical genre bursting with the passion of Mexico.
I also think that writers like Christina Dodd and Karen Robards returning to the genre is a very good thing. Author of the Month, Vanessa Kelly
Flint, which is the title of the book as well as the surname of Eddy's frighteningly driven heroine, is a cross-genre novel.
Younger audiences are becoming increasingly interested in bands of this musical grab-bag genre, and not only as a retro fad.
And the new genre of populist politicians will have to deliver far more than free elections.
If you are into the YA genre check out the Casts, and if you are an adult who likes racy check out J.R. Ward (not that the entire admin team is plotting to attend a J.R. Ward signing or anything like that.) Twilight Lexicon » The Twilight Saga:Escapism At Its Best
Other dramatic, but generally unstaged genres were the cantata and serenata, and the sacred equivalent of opera, oratorio, given in Lent when theatres were closed.
The earnest performances of Ford and Pitt are finally overshadowed by the cliches of the genre.
The primitive but often inspired toons remind us that hip-hop has enjoyed a stronger visual identity than other genres.
A couple of years ago, the NME had one of its periodic brainstorms in which it tries to create completely new musical genres or re-invent existing ones.
However, I'm encouraged by the emergence of a new genre of quieter, less gory horror films in the early years of the new century.
Although drama and news remained distinct genres with overlapping but divergent modes of staging, the nature of the newspaper medium at that particular moment in journalistic history brought to the fore powerful analogies between the two, with respect to both the physical presentation of events and the way we can experience time as imbued with tension and meaning. Introduction
The grand menu of dance styles and artists this city presents - in all genres and venues - is impressive and alluring.
The diversity of genre, the incredible artwork across the board, and the generally impressive writing make it a snip at fifteen dollars.
The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over). October 2009
Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre. Times, Sunday Times
This Hulk exhibits other traits rarely associated with the masculine he-men of the comic book/action genre.
All the genre paintings evince a personal fascination with their subjects.
Attempting to capture the saucy spirit of the movies and genre on which the series was based, and even featuring several of the frisky familiar faces from the films, one would anticipate a risqué, ribald offering.
Not only did Anderson find animators more pleasant company but the genre itself drew him in.
Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre.
The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon). What is Literary Fiction?
God also wants to be serenaded, so get on your knees and sing about your love for God in whatever cultural mode and genre touches your heart most deeply. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
I cannot fathom what kind of scenes he soundtracked as many of his songs have so many fragments of starkly different genres crammed in.
And it is central as well to (and perhaps inseparable from) the question of genre.
The main themes this year include comedy, genre cinema, historical and political works, the search for identity and, of course, love.
But life is short and workdays are long so I have to be choosy about what to include in my diet of books and I like to read widely with a balanced diet of different genres.
In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it. NY Times Upside My Head
It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
This particular editor saw genius in the works where meticulous historical research combined with a quality of writing that breathed new life into the dusty genre of ‘historical fiction.’
The film keeps piling on familiar elements until it feels like it is a parody of the genres (a feeling that the film's final two shots really pound home).
This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”. [Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade
Genre painting as an import ant element of Chinese paintings has its very import ant position and effects in painting history.
Turning to painting in 1907, Feininger began to experiment with formal qualities, namely perspective, while infusing his genre scenes with the same intangible whimsicality evoked in his commercial work dating back to the turn of the century. Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World
The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre, the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.
The decision to choose depth instead of breadth is a trade-off, of course; some subgenres (like military sf and steampunk) are omitted. REVIEW: The Science Fiction Handbook by M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas
Suddenly, hip-hop was a happy and goofy collage of neo-psychedelic colours and a collage of musical genres put together by a trio of Long Island school boys.
The complicated impact of officials on the feudalist management was also revealed sufficiently in this book. It had opened a new important chapter for the genre of discursive remarks.
But his most influential was to transform the way people looked at jazz, to transform the genre into a true modern art with all the complexities that can be found in modernist theater and painting. The Reinvention of Jazz
An effect of Brechtian alienation occurs, and the naturalization of genre is dismantled.
The heist comedy is a genre unto itself, but there is danger in retreading familiar ground.
Form as a sort of genre, including epic poetry, tragedy and fiction.
They match it – in instrumentation, key tonality, chord progression, tempo, genre, voice quality, regional influences, extent of vamping and vocal harmony, and a hundred other variables based on the Music Genome Project – and create a radio station based solely around that music. March 2007
The pieces share the traits typical of their genre in the later 15th century: a treble-dominated texture, probably intended for texted performance of the top voice and solmized or instrumental performance of the lower voices; a contrapuntal structure built around a duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor; a break roughly halfway through corresponding to the division in the poetic form; and a prevailing line-for-line agreement of music and refrain text. Archive 2009-05-01
None of it seems to come from anywhere but the Coens' desire to make another airtight (airless, I would say) genre spoof.
I find there are too many negative connotations to genre writing, especially to the ever-so-popular science fiction / fantasy.
From the very beginning there are pictures of English vegetable gardens and Scottish cabbage patches - examples of a long-lived genre, the rural picturesque.
In case you are not a regular browser of the business section of your local bookstore, let me describe a typical example of the genre.
Joncas' photographs of rotting and leftover refuse are a funny twist on the still-life genre.
Other epodes take up motifs from other contemporary genres (elegy in 11 and 15, pastoral in 2) but with significant alterations of tone: Horace ironically breaks the high emotional level of the models with a detached and distant closure.
The big problem with recommending genre books for readers who either intentionally do not read genre or deny that they do, even when some of the books they have read clearly fit into the speculative fiction rubric, is understanding that the reading mentality in these individuals is different from people who actively and avidly read speculative fiction. MIND MELD: The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H
In a genre overrun by sleazo cheapies, he is the best technician and the only artist.
Edson jovially stresses the capaciousness of the genre.
Twelfth Night," among the dizziest and most farcelike of his romantic comedies, bears a definite family resemblance to the damn-the-torpedoes craziness of such classic examples of the genre as "Bringing Up Baby" and "The Lady Eve. What's Up, Bard?
This time, it's already a whydidhedoit, which is suitably genre-busting. Times, Sunday Times
But overall Niccol has done a fine, restrained job in a genre for which many of us have lowered our expectations.
Yeah, and calling it ‘post-hardcore’ makes it sound like some kiddie's genre where they've all not shaved for a month in the hope their cumulative bumfluff makes them look like they're grown up.
While I have always been aware of hoodoo in the blues, via references to ‘mojos’, ‘black cat bones’ etc., I didn't realize just how many more obscure allusions existed within the genre.

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