Revised Semi-Final Genre Document
Jim Van Dore
Only the officially-sanctioned genres will be allowed in this field. We assume that this will be accomplished through the database (by a pulldown menu, for example).
We assume that there will be a keyword field for more specific information than can be captured in the genre field.
We recommend that in the future genres may be added to the official list based on their number of uses as keyword and their qualification as a genre.
The aspect of age-appropriateness, previously reflected in such genres as Adult, Children, Teen, and reflected in many terms listed in lists of manga genres, is not in fact an aspect of genre.
Genre only applies to narrative or narrative-associated types of sequences. Comic stories and text stories, first of all, but also covers, illustrations, character profiles, activities, etc. associated with those narrative sequences.
- Adventure
A. This genre consists of works characterized by an emphasis on physical and often violent action, exotic locales and danger.
- This genre includes action.
- See also animal, aviation, car, crime, detective-mystery, espionage, fantasy, horror-suspense, jungle, martial arts, science fiction, sports, superhero, sword and sorcery, war, and western-frontier.
- Examples include Bob Morane, Indiana Jones, Tintin, Captain Easy, and Terry and the Pirates.
- Drama
- This genre consists of works containing events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results on a human level.
- This genre includes melodrama, soap opera, joho, and ryori.
- See also erotica, fashion, medical, and romance.
- Examples include Box Office Poison, Love & Rockets, Mary Worth, and A Tale of Two Cities.
- Humor
- This genre consists of works that are primarily comical or amusing
- This genre includes pantomime and demenziole.
- See also anthropomorphic, children, domestic, military, satire-parody, and teen.
- Examples include Mutt and Jeff.
- Non-Fiction
- This genre consists of works purporting to present factual information.
- This genre includes fact and real life.
- See also biography, history, math & science, and nature.
- Examples include Ripley's Believe It or Not.
5. Animal
- This genre consists of works featuring animals essentially acting like real animals.
- Example keywords include dog, horse, and cat.
- Examples include Lassie, Rex the Wonder Dog, and Inubaka.
- Aviation
A. This genre consists of works centered on flying planes or other flying machines.
B. Example keywords include jets.
C. Examples include Airboy and Steve Canyon.
- Car
A. This genre consists of works featuring automobiles, race cars, trucks, etc.
B. Example keywords include hot rod, NASCAR, and trucks.
C. Examples include Hot Wheels, Speed Racer, Michel Vaillant.
- Crime
A. This genre consists of works featuring realistic stories centering on the commission of a crime or crimes and those who commit the crime or crimes.
B. Example keywords include gangsters and prohibition.
C. Examples include Stray Bullets, A True Crime Story, and Torpedo.
- Detective-Mystery
A. This genre consists of works featuring realistic stories centering on the solving of a crime or mystery and those who solve the crime or mystery.
B. Example keywords include private investigator and whodunnit?
C. Examples include Charlie Chan, Roy Raymond, and P.C. 49.
10. Espionage
A. This genre consists of works featuring spies, secret agents, and secret service agencies.
B. Example keywords include thriller and political.
C. Examples include Man from U.N.C.L.E., Modesty Blaise, and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Fantasy
A. This genre consists of works set in worlds where magic or the supernatural predominate over the material, scientific world.
B. Example keywords include mythological and fairy-tale.
C. Examples include Pixies, Fables, and Kelly’s Eye.
- Horror-Suspense
A. This genre consists of works intended to terrify, frighten, shock, mystify, or otherwise hold the reader in tension or dread. Stories in this genre are often concluded with an ironic plot twist.
B. Example keywords include monsters and supernatural.
C. Examples include Swamp Thing, The Walking Dead, and Jack O’Justice.
- Jungle
A. This genre consists of works featuring stories primarily set in the world’s jungles, rainforests, or other equatorial wildernesses.
B. Example keywords include Africa.
C. Examples include Tarzan, Nyoka, and Saber - King of the Jungle.
- Martial Arts
A. This genre consists of works featuring stories centered on characters who use the fighting styles developed in East Asia and similar fighting styles.
B. Example keywords include kung fu, karate, and judo.
C. Examples include Master of Kung Fu, Street Fighter, and Jimmy Chang.
- Science Fiction
A.
This genre consists of works featuring advanced scientific,
futuristic, or extra-terrestrial elements.
B. Example keywords include cyberpunk, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and mecha.
C. Examples include Buck Rogers, Star Wars, and Dr. Who.
- Sports
A. This genre consists of works featuring athletic activities.
B. Example keywords include baseball, Olympics, and tennis.
C. Examples include Joe Palooka, Strange Sports Stories, and Roy of the Rovers.
- Superhero
A.
This
genre consists of works featuring the adventures of costumed
crime fighters, who may also battle alien or
supernatural menaces,
similarly costumed and/or powered criminals, or
other antagonists bent
on conquest, often with the aid of specialized
and/or superhuman
abilities or unique weapons and gadgetry.
Also include stories of
non-costumed characters who otherwise fit the
definition, particularly
if they are often referred to in story as
super-heroes, and also to
stories featuring super-villains.
B. Example keywords include team and pulp.
C. Examples include: Superman, The Phantom, and Marvelman.
- Sword and Sorcery
A. This genre consists of works featuring stories of epic or heroic fantasy, violent conflicts, often with elements of romance, and usually elements of the supernatural.
B. Example keywords include enchanted swords and post-apocalyptic.
C. Examples include Conan, Axa, and Elric.
- War
A. This genre consists of works featuring armed forces in combat, or related, activities during wartime.
B. Example keywords include Revolutionary War, World War II, navy, army, and frogmen.
C. Examples include Sgt. Rock, Willie and Joe, and Charley’s War.
- Western-Frontier
A. This genre consists of works primarily set in the American frontier during the 19th or early 20th century and often featuring cowboys, Indians, ranchers, etc., and other period stories in a similar style, set in other times and places.
B. Example keywords include Native Americans.
C. Examples include Red Ryder, Lucky Luke, and Jonah Hex.
- Erotica
A. This genre consists of works with sexually explicit content whose primary purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
B. Example keywords include hardcore, softcore, gay, and hentai.
C. Examples include Tijuana Bibles, Little Annie Fannie, Sally Forth, and Dragon Pink
- Fashion
A. This genre consists of works centered on fashion and the fashion industry
B. Example keywords include models.
C. Examples include Katy Keene, Barbie, and Cloth Road.
- Medical
A. This genre consists of works centered on medicine and the medical profession.
B. Example keywords include nurses and doctors.
C. Examples include Rex Morgan, MD; Linda Carter, Student Nurse; and Black Jack.
- Romance
A. This genre consists of works centered on love and related personal relationships.
B. Example keywords include soap opera, dating, and wedding.
C. Examples include Reach for Happiness, Johnny Love, and Dance ‘Til Tomorrow.
- Anthropomorphic
A. This genre consists of works featuring characters acting like humans which are not human.
B. Example keywords include Disney and furry animals.
C. Examples include Donald Duck, Corky the Cat, Cerebus, and Milk and Cheese.
- Children
A. This genre consists of works featuring children (approximately age 12 or younger) as the primary protagonists, often having to act more reasonably and resourcefully than their age, in the absence of adult figures.
B. An example keyword term is kid gang.
C. Examples include Little Lulu, Peanuts, and Dennis the Menace.
- Domestic
A. This genre consists of works centered on life in and around the home.
B. Example keywords include family and sitcom.
C. Examples include Blondie and The Simpsons
- Military
A. This genre consists of works featuring armed forces outside of combat, or related, situations.
B. Example keywords include army and coast guard.
C. Examples include Sad Sack and Steve Canyon.
- Satire-Parody
A. This genre consists of works using irony, sarcasm, ridicule and the like to comment on, denounce, or deride social conventions, human relationships, or other literary works (including other comics).
B. Example keywords include pastiche and social commentary.
C. Examples include: Mad’s Spy Vs. Spy, Cerebus, Sid the Sexist, Fighting American, and normalman.
- Teen
A. This genre consists of works featuring teenagers (approximately 13-19 years of age) as the primary protagonists, particularly in stories that deal with their coming of age or maturing into the beginnings of adulthood.
B. Example keywords include pop music, high school, and school life.
C. Examples include Dick Cole, Archie, and Kare Kano.
- Biography
A. This genre consists of non-fictional works depicting the actual events and experiences of a real person’s life or real persons’ lives.
B. Example keywords include memoir and autobiography.
C. Examples include American Splendor, Political Power, and Wonder Women of History.
- History
A. This genre consists of works relating actual events from history.
B. Example keywords include American history and World War II.
C. Examples include Hop Harrigan’s History of Aviation and Picture Stories from American History.
- Math & Science
A. This genre consists of works relating information about the mathematical disciplines or the hard sciences.
B. Example keywords include astronomy and algebra.
C. Examples include Science Says You’re Wrong If…, and The TRS-80 Computer Whiz-Kids.
- Nature
A. This genre consists of works relating information about the environment and the natural world.
B. Example keywords include ecology.
C. Examples include Nature’s Notebook and Ma Nature’s Curiosity Shop.
Adult – removed, partly replaced with erotica
Adventure (action) – renamed adventure
Autobiography – removed
Bio – renamed biography
Celebrity – removed
Detective – renamed detective-mystery
Fact – renamed non-fiction
Family – renamed domestic
Funny animals – renamed anthropomorphic
Gags – removed
Horror – renamed horror-suspense
Humor (comedy) – renamed humor
Monsters – removed
Occult – removed
Period – removed
Political/propaganda – removed
Satire – renamed satire-parody
Sitcom – removed
Soap – removed
Western – renamed western-frontier
Barbarian - considered
Adaptation – considered
Undergrounds – considered
Mythology - suggested
Countercultural - suggested
Tony Rose
"The keyword field should used for more specific information than can be captured in the genre field."
tony
From: "Jim Van Dore" <jrva...@gmail.com>
To: "gcd-genre" <gcd-...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:51:44 PM
Subject: [gcd-genre] Revised Semi-Final Genre Document
Jim Van Dore
Brian Saner Lamken
Jim Van Dore wrote:
> I am going to start threads for the remaining topics, as I understand them. If there is something you think this committee should tackle before submitting a final report, please let me know and I will start a thread on that topic. Also, if you see something in the document that you think needs fixing, let me know.
I'm sorry that I haven't replied to any of the new threads yet nor even got around to composing comments on the document (which had a couple of quizzical bits). A pair of successive colds plus the usual stuff has kept me out of sorts.
Blam
Brian Saner Lamken
blamken.blogspot.com
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