• In popular culture, formula fiction is literature in which the storylines and plots have been reused to the extent that the narratives are predictable...
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    Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting...
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    Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized...
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  • cycle. Film theory Film genre Formula fiction In literary works, generic storylines are referred to as formula fiction. American Film Cycles: Reframing...
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    post-apocalyptic fiction Crime fiction Science fantasy Alternate history Steampunk Escapism Formula fiction Genre fiction Pulp magazines Literature Fiction Metafiction...
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  • infants Trinitarian formula, a Biblical phrase Well-formed formula, a word that is part of a formal language, in logic Formula fiction, literature following...
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    evident in historical films and documentaries but can be found in non-fiction drama, comedy and horror films as well). Italian director Sergio Leone's...
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  • "ossification of American movies with their brutal formulas". In Siskel's view, the violent intensity of Pulp Fiction calls to mind other violent watershed films...
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    Science Fiction; Ballard’s Crash" Baudrillard, Jean "The Simulacrum's Revenge," sec 3.2 of Flatline Constructs: Gothic and Cybernetic-Theory Fiction Fisher...
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  • Real person fiction or real people fiction (RPF) is a genre of writing similar to fan fiction, but featuring celebrities or other real people. Before...
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    According to Dwight V. Swain, a creative writing professor and prolific fiction author, all characters begin as stock characters and are fleshed out only...
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  • instruments". Structuralist narratologists like Rimmon-Kenan define narrative fiction as "the narration of a succession of fictional events". Cognitive narratologists...
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    Percy Lubbock wrote The Craft of Fiction, which was published in 1921. The aim of Lubbock is to give a shape or a formula to books, because he states: "We...
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    around fan fiction and other fan works. OTW also maintains its own fan fiction archive, the Archive of Our Own, commonly called AO3. All fan fiction on the...
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  • (though not always) police or crime related.[citation needed] The general formula for a police procedural involves the commission or discovery of a crime...
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    was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and popularized within science fiction fandom, entering the Oxford English Dictionary...
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  • using an all-child cast for the Western spoof. Historically, when a genre formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s,...
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