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So... which genres are ripe for revival this year?
We do this by asking our friends for recommendations, looking out for favourite authors and remembering which genres we enjoy.
Two sociologists at UCLA University of Californiaa, Los Angeles) did a study which looked at IMDb data for 3,000 Oscar-eligible movies (released between 1985 and 2009) to see which genres were most likely to get nominations.
It's obvious which genres the Agatha Christie whodunnit and the 007 spy novel belong to, but between them are sub-genres — courtroom duel, psychological thriller, suspense novel, crime caper, criminal-centred fiction — not so easily classified.
For example, you can have Bloomberg Business alert you with news about the S&P 500 companies you're interested in, CBS Sports lets you choose your favorite teams, The Weather Channel lets you select your ZIP code, and Vevo lets you choose which genres of music videos you want to know about.
Still, questions remain about which genres are most suited to VR, and whether content that already has a sense of urgency will start to feel like overload in such a visceral medium.
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It is also sometimes uncertain which genre the book belongs in.
You wonder which genre the Killers will pluck next from their musical dressing-up box.
Which genre-bending band takes its name from a short story by Mark Twain?
I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more — story, novel, neither, both.
It was instantly apparent which genre each writer belonged to — first by appearance, then by mannerism, finally by prose.
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