Today, Skylanders got some company in the game-meets-toy genre in the form of Disney Infinity.

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The biggest problem for in-game ads presents itself in the form of genre.

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When the war ended in 1865, all of these musical styles blended to form a new genre called ragtime, which syncopated the rhythms of previous genres and made songs that everyone wanted to dance to.

BBC: The birthplace of jazz

An award for best comedy gives Oscar's preening half the opportunity to recognize profound, well-crafted, seriously funny films that will go down as classics not just of the genre, but of the form.

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After Mattie Moss Clark made her name as one of the giants in the genre, her four daughters went on to form the legendary group, The Clark Sisters.

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Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.

BBC: Paris�� art world is in full bloom

Stevens said that Manet's portraits have "not been studied in either exhibition or book form" before, despite the artist's "unswerving commitment to the genre of portraiture throughout his career".

BBC: Manet portraits head for London's Royal Academy