September 2010
Beginner
514 pages
12h 32m
English
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Chapter 4. THE MEDIUM-SIZED LIST OF STORY THEMES
Adventure: period piece
Adventure: pulp/"two-fisted" action
Adventure: survival/disaster
Adventure: swashbuckler/pirate
Blaxplotation/grindhouse
Caper/heist/thief
Cartoon/anthropomorphic
Comedy: romantic
Comedy: screwball/slapstick
Crime drama/police
Documentary/showbiz
Educational
Erotic
Espionage
Family drama
Fantasy: fairytale
Fantasy: mythology (Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Norse, and so on)
Fantasy: swords and sorcery
Fantasy: whimsical
Film noir/hard-boiled detective
Game show
Horror: B-movie/giant monster
Horror: gothic (vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein)
Horror: sci-fi
Horror: torture porn/slasher
Horror: zombie/end of the world
Martial arts/ninja
Medical drama
Mobster/gangster
Musical
Music/rock 'n' roll
Mystery
Nurture/tamagotchi
Political
School/teen drama
Sci-fi: cyberpunk
Sci-fi: Japanese/Sentai/giant robot
Sci-fi: realistic
Sci-fi: retro (1930s)
Sci-fi: space opera
Sci-fi: steampunk
Sci-fi: undersea
Sports: Olympic
Sports: racing
Sports: team (American football, soccer, hockey, baseball, basketball, and so on)
Superhero
War (World War I, World War II, American Revolution, Crusades, Napoleonic, American Civil War, Iraq conflict, Vietnam[184])
Western/spaghetti western
[184] I apologize in advance to all of my international readers for my American bias towards warfare and history.
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