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  2. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, [2] such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama ...

  3. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. 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.

  4. List of television formats and genres - Wikipedia

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    Dramality: a combination of television drama and reality television genres [1] [2] (e.g., the soap opera The Only Way Is Essex [3]). Dramedy; Courtroom drama; Medical Drama: A medical drama is based around a team of medics helping patients who have been involved in accidents serious or otherwise. Most commonly, an accident occurs which results ...

  5. Category:Drama genres - Wikipedia

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    This category is about subgenre of drama (as a general genre). Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. C. Closet drama‎ (13 P)

  6. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  7. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

  8. Category:Theatrical genres - Wikipedia

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    Cine-variety. City comedy. Comedia (play) Comédie en vaudevilles. Comédie-ballet. Comedy (drama) Comedy thriller. Community theatre. Concert saloon.

  9. Film genre - Wikipedia

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    With the proliferation of particular genres, film subgenres can also emerge: the legal drama, for example, is a sub-genre of drama that includes courtroom- and trial-focused films. Subgenres are often a mixture of two separate genres; genres can also merge with seemingly unrelated ones to form hybrid genres , where popular combinations include ...