Genre
Technology and creativity spawn new genres in literature and theatre. The onset of a new genre will be its Golden Age:
- Golden Age of Broadway, the period from about 1943 to 1968 that brought musicals like Oklahoma! (1943); Kiss Me, Kate (1948); West Side Story (1957); The Sound of Music (1959); and Hello, Dolly! (1964) to the Broadway stage
- Golden Age of British dance bands, 1920s-1930s
- Golden Age of the British whodunit, early 20th century
- Golden Age of Comic Books, period between roughly 1938 and 1945, though exact definitions vary
- Golden Age of Mexican cinema, beginning in 1935 and ending in the late 1950s
- Golden Age of Detective Fiction, an era of detective fiction between World Wars I and II, epitomised by Agatha Christie.
- Golden age of the Italian Horror movie (ca. 1957-1979)
- Golden Age of Science Fiction, period from the late 1930s through the 1950s
- Golden age of Swordplay, period of sword skills between 16th and 18th century
- Golden Age of the Western, of the Western movie, 1930s-1960s
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Famous quotes containing the word genre:
“We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmares. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.”
—Daniel Easterman (b. 1949)