Definition of "genres" []

• Plural form of genre. (noun)

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• "While Science Fiction and Fantasy are NOT the same thing, they are very much intertwined in my mind and separating the genres is a BAD thing, making it more difficult to move between the genres and authors when, say, Orson Scott Card's work will be in different sections and Ender's Game won't be on the same row as Seventh Son."
• "At the end of the silent era of movies, several of the main genres were established such as the melodrama, the western, horror films, comedies and action-adventure films."
• "In the third chapter I focus more closely on how film violence is used in genres that are immediately associated with violence (horror, action-adventure, and Westerns) and show how representations of violence function ideologically within the generic structures and how those ideologies have shifted over time."