the.com/genre
The promise a story makes before it's broken, politely, in the third act.
means A category or type of creative work — book, film, music, whatever — grouped by shared style, form, or subject matter.
from Borrowed straight from French 'genre,' meaning 'kind' or 'type,' which traces back to Latin 'genus' (stock, race, kind) — the same root that gives us 'gender,' 'general,' and 'generate.' English picked it up around the 1700s, originally for classifying art and literature, keeping its French pronunciation intact as a little badge of its borrowed status.
- etymology
- from french for kind, same root as gender
- marketing trick
- shelves novels faster than quality ever could
- paradox
- best works usually break their own category's rules
- netflix era
- now just a mood with a runtime attached