Genre / Form Searches of the ASU Library Catalog
Fables -- Hymns
Fables
Stories intended to teach moral lessons, and whose main characters are generally animals or inanimate objects that speak and act like human beings. For short, simple stories that convey a moral lesson, and whose main characters are generally humans, see Parables.
Fabliaux
Bawdily humorous medieval tales that were generally written in eight-syllable verse.
Fairy tales
Short simple folk narratives that feature fantastic forces and magical beings and are usually intended for children.
Family histories
Narrative studies of families and the tracing of their lineages and histories. For lineages of people, or purebred animals in tabular or diagrammatic form see Genealogical tables.
Fantasy comedies (Motion pictures)
Films that feature benevolent intervention by mythological or supernatural beings with comic results, or that feature incredible inventions or machines having a mind of their own.
Fantasy comics
Comics in which magic and extraordinary characters are integral to the story.
Fantasy drama
Plays in which magic and extraordinary characters are integral to the story.
Fantasy fiction
Fiction in which magic and extraordinary characters are integral to the story.
Fantasy films
Films that feature elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds.
Fantasy poetry
Poems in which magic and extraordinary characters are integral to the story.
Fantasy television programs
Television programs that feature elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds.
Farces
Comedy plays characterized by improbable situations, physical antics, fast-moving action, and stock characters.
Feature films
Individual full-length films with a running time of 40 minutes or more.
Fiction television programs
Television programs portraying imaginary characters and events.
Ficitonal autobiographies
Works that present themselves as autobiographies but whose narrators and events are fictional. For fiction that is based on events in the author's life, but employs fictional characters intermixed with fictional events, see Autobiographical fiction.
Field guides
Illustrated handbooks used to identify natural objects, animals, plants, etc., in their natural environment.
Field recordings
Recordings of sounds or images made outside a controlled studio environment or professional performance venue that are generally unedited and typically made with portable equipment.
Film clips
Short segments, usually incomplete scenes, of films. For parts, usually complete scenes or sequences, extracted from a complete film see Film excerpts.
Film excerpts
Parts, usually complete scenes or sequences, extracted from a complete film. For short segments, usually incomplete scenes, of films see Film clips.
Film serials
Films that were shown in weekly installments and usually featured cliffhanger endings.
Film soundtracks
Recordings of unaltered film soundtracks that may include speech, sound effects, music, etc., and that may be complete soundtracks or selected portions of soundtracks.
Films for people with visual disabilities
Films for the hearing impaired
Motion pictures for the hearing impaired.
Fingering charts
Charts that provide fingerings for musical instruments.
Flip books
Books that consist of a series of illustrations bound together in a sequence so that they create an illusion of animation when flipped rapidly.
Folk dance music
Collections of miscellaneous folk dance music. For music for individual dances, see the dance form, e.g., Morris dances (Music).
Folk literature
Works based on oral traditions.
Folk music
Locally or regionally traditional music that was originally developed in performance and aurally transmitted in community contexts, and for music composed stylistically and/or ideologically within these traditions.
Folk poetry
Poems that are composed and transmitted via oral tradition.
Folk tales
Short narratives of uncertain origin that are based on oral tradition.
Fotonovelas
Narratives consisting of photographs laid out in the style of a comic book.
Found poetry
Poems consisting of words or text taken from various sources and reframed as poetry. For poems consisting of passages from poems by one or more other authors see Centos.
Frame stories
Stories that contain other stories.
Free verse
Poems whose rhythms are based on the cadences of common speech instead of on conventional metrical patterns.
Fugues
Musical works based on canonic imitation that generally begin with a subject that recurs frequently throughout. For works with a melody that is imitated at a particular interval of time, generally note-for-note see Canons (Music).
Functional music
Musical compositions composed or adapted to accompany activities or events, incite actions or emotions, or to use in particular locations.
Funny animal comics
Comics that feature anthropomorphic animals.
Gay comics
Comics about the gay experience.
Gay fiction
Fiction about the gay experience.
Gay poetry
Poetry about the gay experience.
Genderqueer comics
Comics about the genderqueer experience
Genealogical tables
Lineages of people or purebred animals in tabular or diagrammatic form. For narrative studies of families and the tracing of their lineages and histories see Family histories.
Geographic information systems
Gift books
Illustrated literary miscellanies that were given as gifts in the 19th century.
Globes
Spherical representations of individual planets, stars, moons, comets, etc.
Gothic fiction
Fiction that depicts gloomy and antiquated settings, characters that are haunted by secrets and unresolved conflicts, psychological and physical terror, and elements of the supernatural.
Graphs
Graphic representations of data. For data in textual form arranged in columns and rows see Tables (Data).
Gregorian chants
Cards that are printed with messages and/or suitable illustrations and given on special occasions or holidays.
Guidebooks
Books intended for travelers that provide information about a particular geographical location, often including descriptions of lodgings, restaurants, and places of interest.
Hagiographies
Biographies of saints, religious figures, and deities that focus on their lives as exemplars of the faith. For calendars or lists of martyrs that may contain some biographical information see Martyrologies.
Haiku
Three-line unrhymed poems consisting of 17 syllables that express a single idea, image, or feeling that is generally related to nature. For three-line unrhymed humorous poems consisting of 17 syllables that generally satirize human nature or emotions see Senryu.
Haunted house films
Fictional films set in houses that appear to be inhabited by spirits.
Haunted house television programs
Fictional television programs set in houses that appear to be inhabited by spirits.
Heroic drama
Plays depicting a noble hero typically caught in a conflict between love and honor, and distinguished by bombast, exotic settings, and lavish scenery.
High interest-low vocabulary books
Historic structure reports
Reports that comprehensively document and analyze a property's history and condition.
Historical comics
Comics set during a recognizable time period prior to the time in which they were written.
Historical drama
Plays set during a recognizable time period prior to the time in which they were written.
Historical fiction
Fiction set during a recognizable time prior to the time in which they were written.
Historical films
Fictional films that portray historical events or famous people.
Historical poetry
Poems set during a recognizable time period prior to the time in which they were written.
Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)
Historical reenactments (Television programs)
Historical television programs
Fictional television programs that portray historical events or famous people.
Holy Week music
Music that is traditionally associated with Holy Week.
Horror comics
Comics that are intended to shock or frighten by inducing feelings of revulsion, terror, or loathing.
Horror fiction
Fiction that is intended to shock or frighten by inducing feelings of revulsion, terror, or loathing.
Horror plays
Plays that are intended to shock or frighten by inducing feelings of revulsion, terror, or loathing.
Humor
Comical works intended to provoke laughter and provide amusement.
Hunting music
This term is used as a genre/form term for music surrounding the ritual of the hunt, including music used to coordinate and rally the hunt while in process.
Hymns
Sacred songs that are normally associated with worship services and are typically suitable for singing by a full assembly. For texts of hymns that appear without a musical setting see Hymn texts. For instrumental hymn music that appears without accompanying sung text, see Hymn tunes.
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