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Satire 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire Book Subject   Political satire
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing art. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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Political satire   Book Subject Satire  
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians, and public affairs. It has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as...
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Mecha The Land Walker is a 3.4 metre tall mechanised walker, capable of speeds up to 1.5 km/h Computer Game Genre    
Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicle controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal. In most fiction in...
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Anime The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) Film genre    
( in Japanese, but typically , , , or in English) is an abbreviation of the English word "animation," originating in Japan through the roots of manga. Although the term is used in Japan to refer to animation in general, in English usage the term...
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Martial arts   Film genre    
Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. This genre is a type of action film characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts. This genre has mainly been produced in China, peaking in...
Situation comedy   TV Genre Comedy  
A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring...
Humour Smiling is a sign of a sense of humour being present Website Category    
Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. People of most ages and cultures...
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Social commentary   Film genre    
Social commentary is the act of rebelling against a government by means of rhetorical propaganda. This is most often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to...
Literary Genre
Non-fiction   Literary Genre    
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that...
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History The title page to The Historians' History of the World. Field Of Study    
History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. Recently, there has been an increased interest in oral histories and...
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Music history Literary Genre Musicology  
The field of music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of...
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Cultural history Mr and Mrs William Hallett Literary Genre    
The term cultural history (from the German term Kulturgeschichte) refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter. Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches...
Music theory   Field Of Study    
Music theory is the field of study that deals with the mechanics of music and how music works. It involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more general sense, music theory also often distills and analyzes the elements of...
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Musicology   Profession   Music history
Musicology (Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason") is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture. In...
Field Of Study Aesthetics of music
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Aesthetics of music   Literary Genre Musicology  
Traditionally, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics concentrated on the quality and study of the beauty and enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music. Aesthetics is a sub-discipline of philosophy. However, many musicians, music critics,...
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Fiction Alice, a fictional character from the work of Lewis Carroll Literary Genre    
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form...
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Fantasy Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych Book Subject    
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
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Young adult literature Tom Sawyer av Mark Twain ses ofta som en av de första ungdomslitteraturböckerna Literary Genre    
Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA fiction, or simply YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents, roughly ages 12 to 18. Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct...
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Bollywood Film genre    
Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry....
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Drama American Beauty won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture Film genre   Costume drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. It is derived from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek / dráma), derived from "to do" (Classical Greek / dráō). Dramas are performed in various media: theatre, radio,...
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Sports game Tennis for Two Computer Game Genre   Arena football
A sports game is a computer or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sport. They are extremely popular, the genre including some of the best-selling games. Almost every familiar sport has been recreated with a game, including...
Simulation Wooden mechanical horse simulator during WWI Computer Game Genre    
Simulation is the imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system. Historically, the...
Massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, the world's most popular MMO Computer Game Genre    
A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMOG or simply MMO) is a video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and feature at least one persistent...
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Comedy-drama   TV Genre    
Comedy-drama, also called dramedy and dramatic-comedy, is a style of television and movie in which there is an equal, or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content. Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided...
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Adventure Poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark, designed by Richard Amsel. Film genre    
Adventure Film is a film genre. The adventure film reached its peak of popularity in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably Errol...
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War   Film genre Action genre Gulf War
War film is a film genre concerned with war, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or...
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Documentary Nanook of the North Film genre   Mondo film
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to...
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Novel Book Subject    
A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels,...
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Textbook Two textbooks. Literary Genre    
A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study. They are produced according to the demand of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online...
Musical Marilyn Monroe dans la bande-annonce de Les hommes préfèrent les blondes, 1953 Film genre    
The musical film is a film genre in which several song sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters. A subgenre of the musical film is the musical comedy, which...
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