Genre

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iitwM3dxR3s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.
Film Genre
Refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism.
Music Genre
A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music.