With all the traditional filtering systems of the past that help determine the quality of a book diminishing at an accelerating pace, I have been thinking a lot about how a serious writer of non-genre fiction, meaning novels and short stories, will gain a loyal audience.
"I love all genders of music," he said, meaning genres.
Thre3style isn't your basic '90s-style scratch battle over eight rounds, DJs are judged based on their skill spanning across at least three genres of music, meaning there's lots of electronic dance in the mix.
The boundaries of style and genre are arbitrary, meaning even the way a station arranges its playlist can inform our taste and our understanding of how those artists and those styles fit in.
Meanwhile the older genre of "public art", meaning art commissioned and devised to occupy public space, has struggled to keep up.
Sex with aliens is a massive genre, falling under "exophilia," meaning the desire to have intimate relations with non-human life forms.
And so the band's music was dangerous because of its very harmlessness; its success suggested that rock fans could be swindled or lulled into liking anything, meaning that the genre itself had been rendered obsolete.
But because Mr. Mann makes thrillers the way that John Ford made westerns, using genre as a way into meaning rather than as an escape, "Collateral" bears little relation to the usual Hollywood blowout.
It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing.
