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OVERALL DEFINITION ''Genre'' is originally a French word meaning "kind", "sort" or "type"; in grammatical terminology, it means ''gender'', and refers to the grammatical categories of masculine, feminine and (in descriptions of some languages other than French) neuter Gender (the noun "genre" itself belongs to the masculine gender in French, for example). In general there are three types of genre:
The genre's may also be defined in film by the target audience (e.g. pre-teen or teen). They may also be catagorised by the production values of the film (e.g. blockbuster, independent, b-movie) In artforms such as Music , Painting , and Sculpture , genre tends to be determined by format and style. SUBGENRE Genres are often divided into subgenres. In , Comedy Of Manners , Burlesque , and Satire . ) as they are understood at the time of writing, or be highly and speculatively imaginative tales set in an ''extraterrestrial civilization'' for example, or in a Parallel Universe , an Alternate History , or outright Fantasy , all recognized subgenres of science fiction. A perhaps more apt term as coined by Heinlein all part of,'' ' Speculative Fiction ' '' Thus, even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on ''faster-than-light travel'', may still be classified as science fiction. And more recently, the term "science fantasy" which category covers stories which have elements of both hard science and fantasy has come into play as a subgenre. GENERIC CONVENTIONS In every field of Art there are Conventions that may simply be Expectation s ( Painting s are rectangular) and stock devices (a Comedy ends with a marriage, but a Western can end with the Hero riding off into the sunset). These are generic conventions which are very closely tied to a particular artistic genre, and help to define what that genre is. Some of these conventions may develop into Cliché s. GENRE AND AUDIENCES Although most genres are often only vaguely definable, genre considerations are one of the most important factors in determining what a person will see or read. Many genres have built-in audiences and corresponding publications that support them, such as Magazine s and websites. Books and movies that are difficult to pigeonhole into a genre are often less successful commercially. "HIERARCHY OF GENRES" In the field of Painting , there exists a " Hierarchy Of Genres " associated with the Académie Française which once held a central role in Academic Art . These genres in hierarchical order are: These categories played an important role between the 17th Century and the modern era, when Painter s and Critic s began to rebel against the many rules of the Académie française, including the Académie's preference for history painting. GENRE IN PHILOSOPHY The concept of "genre" has played a notable role among Philosophers Of Language , figuring very prominently in the works of philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin . Bakhtin's basic observations were of "speech genres" (the idea of Heteroglossia ), modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate (such as "formal letter" and "grocery list", or "university lecture" and "personal anecdote"). The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of Literary Genre s, appearing separately but around the same time (1920s–1930s) as Bakhtin. SEE ALSO Genre articles by field
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