List of genres
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (August 2014) |
Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.