Styles and Genres 2

Decor and architecture

New Age rococo On Skye, I'm staying in a cottage whose design can only be described as new age rococo. Stags, swags, wind chimes. Love it. @tomdyckhoff

mod lodge What do you get when you mix modern wood panelling, stone fireplaces, mountain views, and the occasional resin deerhead? The "mod lodge" look — it's a blend of old-school Alpine and sixties mod style — knotty pine meets Knoll. www.apartmenttherapy.com

fruit-salad civic Jonathan Foyle, BBC4 Sept 12 10

advertisers’ nostalgia How could anyone who had read the book and who had any respect for literature… turn this story of glum penny-pinched '30s London into 1990s-style standard advertiser's jolly-jumpered "Heritage" golden nostalgia? (imdb on Keep the Aspidistra Flying)

hard-core suburban Fanny Cradock “had hard-core suburban taste” Paul Levy Indy June 10

scando-simple Alone in this clinically faux-funky space (Scando-simple wooden furniture, facetious lamps, abstracts with blue splodges apparently styled after cancer cells), Matthew Norman 29 may 10


MUSIC
I think I like symphonic metal. If you know what any of these are, or would like to add some, please comment.

acid techno
alternativo
Balkan turbo folk
dancehall
dark electronic dance
darkwave
EBM
epic a.m.m.
folk metal
freestyle
French-Pop/NuChanson/Electro-Chanson (Zofka)
funeral doom
funk psych
fuzz wah-wah
garage psych
Gothic
Gothrock
grunge
hard rock
hauntology
horrorbilly
improv
Industrial
melodic chilled electro
metal Industrial
mittelalter
mumblecore
no wave
psych-funk
psychobilly
Rock In Opposition
rockabilly
spacemusic
symphonic metal (and all the billions of others)
visual kei
Zeuhl


FILMS/THEATER

kitchen-sink drama
horse opera
meller (short for melodrama)
noir
oater (Western)
pill opera (daytime hospital saga)
schlock
slasher/splatter/slice ‘n’ dice movie
space opera
sword and sandals
sword and sorcery
thatawayer (oater)
torn porn (tornado porn)
yawner zzzzz
Political types

revanchist “A usually political policy, as of a nation or an ethnic group, intended to regain lost territory or standing.”

irredentist “One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one's nation but now subject to a foreign government.”

poujadiste Pierre Poujade was a French populist politician after whom the Poujadist movement was named. Poujadism flourished most vigorously in the last years of the French Fourth Republic, and articulated the economic interests and grievances of shopkeepers and other proprietor-managers of small businesses facing economic and social change. The movement's ideological issues were: lower taxes, corporatism, and the denouncing of politicians and media; later, the movement grew increasingly nationalist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and critical of parliamentary institutions.

petainiste Petain was head of Vichy France

Christian types

spiky
high up the candle
smells and bells
pongs and gongs
happy clappy
tin tabernacle