La SF de la Théorie : Baudrillard et Haraway by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.)

“…With the expansion of the technological construction of social life in the postmodem period, SF ceases to be a genre of art and becomes instead a mode of quotidian awareness. …”
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О интерсемиотической передаче комического в аудиодескрипции к советским кинокомедиям by Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst

“…The language of the AD should be appropriate to the genre of the film lexically and stylistically. This means that the language of AD in film comedies should contain some verbal ‘signals’ of the comic as an aesthetic category. …”
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Orkney snork nie! by Stephan Bouwer

“…(SABC TV1) is used as "vehicle" to demonstrate that TV viewing is a highly entangled, inter textual, communication transaction. The question of genre delimination, as an ideological implement, is also mooted. …”
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Notes pour l’interprétation de l’aube anonyme En un vergier sotz fuella d’albespi (PC 461, 113) by Jean-Pierre Chambon

“…Having first given all the guarantees of its generic inclusion, the text retroactively rejects the basic situation of the “alba” genre: the separation of lovers at dawn. Inversion provides the unifying principle that organizes the poem: inversion of reading, inversion of reference, inversion of the generic convention and, of course, inversion of the sex of the principal actant (a woman). …”
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Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso by Kayode Samuel

“… In response to the question of the relevance of ‘classical’ African Studies to the contemporary need of the continent, this article explores the dynamics of leadership challenge as portrayed in Yorùbá music drama genre, using Duro Ladipo’s most popular folk opera: Ọba Kòso (The king did not hang) as a case study. …”
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Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…To capture their extreme violence, the showrunner uses the conventions of the horror genre. Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. …”
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Décrire la ville, écrire le patrimoine by Jean-Claude David

“…In the context of the Middle East, at least since the eleventh century, “city narratives”, a common literary genre, have been used as a way of substantiating individual and collective identity links with the living and changing urban entity, in this way giving the city a form of global identity beyond what might otherwise amount to a mere collection of isolated monuments or spatial constructs. …”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…By the 1830s, the almanac was one of few print genres to have found a broad readership across all classes of society. …”
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The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes by Jeffrey HOPES

“…Handel’s music builds a pastoral language that draws on the conventions of the genre but which constantly subverts and manipulates them for dramatic and psychological effect. …”
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Toi, cyborg ? L’hybridation prothétique dans la nouvelle de science-fiction by Dominique Kunz Westerhoff

“…From the start, the space opera genre dramatizes the intimate dissonance of the prosthesis and the flesh, the body as an instrument and the loss of the constitutive limits of individuality. …”
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Internal Extensions: A Case for The Reassessment of the Architectural Phenomenon of Greenhouse by Ognjen Šukalo, Maja Milić Aleksić, Slobodan Peulić

“…During approximately three centuries of their notable existence, these structures managed to not only enable the growth of exotic plants removed far from their natural range but also to form a particular genre of architecture, which developed through different phases, from feeble experiment through high exclusivity to near irrelevance – and back into new paradigms of vegetation-culture-architecture relationship. …”
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Plotting a Path Forward: Towards a Supportive Graduate Writing Program by Keith O'Regan

“…This article reviews the effectiveness of a writing support program with an attention to questions of genre, metadiscursive awareness, disciplinary conventions, and the program’s capacity to assist dissertation writers with completing large sections of work through building feelings of self-belief and self-advocacy. …”
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Mahala și periferie în romanul interbelic by Alexandru Farcaș

“…The social report was the non-literary genre which informed the realist fiction depicting this space and its specific social issues. …”
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“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Analyzing Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Captain America: Civil War (all released in 2016) in terms of genre, narrative as well as characters and their symbolic implications, the article shows how the films comment in ambiguous, even contradictory ways on the current terrain of justice. …”
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From Prose to Picture: Critical Reflections on the Road and the Journey in John Steinbeck’s and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath by Beatrice Melodia Festa

“…Within the literary text, the journey serves as a metaphor for dispossession, whereas in the film, the motifs of the “road” and “travel” substantiate the film’s alignment with the road movie genre. Ultimately, this article argues that Steinbeck’s novel was instrumental in shaping Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the journey and the road, themes which would later be re-elaborated in the road movie, a cinematic reworking of the road narrative. …”
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« Soy feminista y me gusta el perreo » : les conflits de (re)signification dans les politiques sexuelles du reggaeton by Victor Santos Rodriguez

“…This article focuses on reggaeton, one of the world’s most listened-to music genres, and its emblematic dance, the perreo. The article shows how the study of this musical and choreographic genre enriches our understanding of sexual politics in popular music. …”
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Native American Women as Palimpsestic Apparitions in Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu’s The Revenant by M. Elise Marubbio

“…It highlights the violence bred of racism that weaves throughout the history of westward expansion, undercuts the genre’s tendency toward white privilege through multi-lingual narratives, and centers a counter-narrative focused on Indigenous families and women. …”
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Eine Theorie des lyrischen Gedichts by Dieter Lamping

“…In order to correspond to the conception of the lyrical genre in the understanding of Dieter Lamping a text has to meet two conditions: On the one hand the lyrical poem, a term which is employed synonymously to poetry, is to be distinguished from both dramatic and epic poems as it is considered as single speech in verses. …”
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Analysing Academic Texts with Computational Linguistics Tools by E. I. Shpit, V. N. Kurovskii

“…It seems impossible to study any genre without analysing examples of the discourse, which highlights the use of computational linguistics as it allows automating a lot of language and text processing mechanisms and generates relatively accurate quantitative results. …”
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Le « Héros homicide et nocturne » en pleines « Lumières » : de Cartouche ou les voleurs (1721) aux « Vies privées » (1721-1803) by Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre

“…The way in which the character of the criminal shifts between the different genres reveals his theatrical aspect and paradoxically at the same time the questions this poses for the theatrical genre.…”
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