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genre studies
noun
A structuralist approach to literary theory, film theory, and other cultural theories, examining the elements that combine in the telling of a story and seeking patterns in collections of stories.
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"Banter" and "genre studies" were the first two.
("Genre studies," I was to discover, was Grosskurthese for "journalism".
These, he wrote, were superior genre studies of Londoners "caught in their natural habitat".
And whether her songs are genre studies or something deeper, she lights them up onstage.
The individual movements sound like genre studies or cast-off sketches, but they coalesce into unexpectedly gripping narratives.
It includes landscapes, portraits, figure and genre studies that derive from 17th-century Dutch art but also show his interest in contemporary realism, à la Courbet.
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His 1982 book, "Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound," was lauded by the critic Robert Palmer in The Times as "everything a rock 'n' roll genre study should be".
Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants followed a few months later, serialized as Gravy Planet; Brian Aldiss, in his critical genre study Trillion Year Spree, calls it "one of the most famous books in SF".
Pick a genre, study what makes songs special and good.
Pop ranked 11th out of the 25 genres studied in terms of lyrical range, proving that there was little correlation between the range of vocabulary and the commercial success of pop tunes that dominate the charts.
Lohan's four mug shots, which can be found on Radar, TMZ, Gawker, Perez Hilton, Pop Crunch and dozens of other gossip sites, are online genre pieces: studies in inky eyeliner, corn-yellow peroxide and precinct-office fluorescence.
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