Genres
- Western
- a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
- punk
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- tragicomedy
- a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- Aesop's fables
- a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
- telefilm
- a movie that is made to be shown on television
- talkie
- a movie with synchronized speech and singing
- sidebar
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
- military music
- brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
- dark comedy
- a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements
- doo-wop
- a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing; characterized by close four-part harmonies; the name derived from some of the nonsense syllables sung by the backup
- modernism
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
- shoot-'em-up
- a movie featuring shooting and violence
- processional
- religious music used in a procession
- slapstick
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- scat
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- tragedy
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
- myth
- a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
- apologue
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- vernacular art
- a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
- funeral march
- a slow march to be played for funeral processions
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