Talk:List of genres

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Unreferenced mess

Every single bullet point needs a reference. Without one, we get ridiculous errors like serials, soap operas, miniseries, TV movies and others being listed as "unscripted". Bright☀ 15:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(A rather wide-reaching) suggestion to change the overall structure

Looking at the list I think that we should change the structure, the first section should look something like this

Basic genres(HEADING)
comedy, horror, thriller, sci-fi, romance, drama, slice-of-life, action, adventure, mystery, fantasy, musical (film and tv only) maybe pornography/erotic fiction, maybe sports, tragedy, supernatural and western

Then I think there should be two subheadings, "subgenres" and "crossgenres". Cross genres being anything which combines elements of two genres, such as paranormal romance, occult detective, or tragicomedy (including things which are literally just two genre names mashed together like adventure-fantasy). Subgenres would be thinks like steampunk, magical realism, dystopia, utopia, space opera, cyberpunk, found footage horror and urban fantasy (genres within genres, and things too specific to be a basic genre like apocolyptic fiction). It should include genres born from anime & manga (harem, isekai, mecha, magical girl), as well as comics (superhero), (the list seems to be missing a couple of these because someone took a silly overreach, and decided because the main heading is called "literary genres" that they shouldn't be there anywhere on the list, even though comics and manga are literature). The genres in the subgenre/crossgenre section shouldn't be broken into subheadings like "sci-fi subgenres".

Then finally a non-fiction genre section, eg, biographical, autobiographical, memoir, sex-ed, documentary, biopic and perhaps a section which includes everything in the unscripted television heading right now, like reality tv, hidden camera shows, game shows, quiz shows, variety shows, music programming, sports coverage, the news and so forth (there are also newsreels which showed in theatres AFAIK)

Anyway, share some thougts I guess, thanks 203.59.138.98 (talk) 15:41, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Settings as genres?

Why are there so many settings and subsettings listed as genres, here? The genre is supposed to tell what the story is about, not where it is happening. Sci-Fi and Fantasy are settings, not genres (and Cyberpunk and Isekai are subsettings within those, for example). They don't tell what will happen within the pages, they only say where or how it will look. -- 190.178-y-lo-que-toque (talk) 21:28, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]