A Procedural is a cross-genre type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail. A documentary film may be written in a procedural style to heighten narrative interest. Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

Types

• Police procedural: the best known variety, a large sub-genre of mystery fiction. Lawrence Treat's 1945 novel V as in Victim is cited as perhaps the first "true" police procedural.[1]
• Military procedural: a term used by Publishers Weekly in 1989[2] referring to Ralph Peters' novel Red Army
• War procedural: an example is the film The Dam Busters, 1955, which was called a war procedural by Richard Gilliam in the All Movie Guide.[3]
  • Tom Clancy's novels are sometimes called war procedurals or political procedurals.
• Science procedural: Science fiction novels or stories may have sequences of scientific procedure. An example would be Timescape, written by the scientist and author Gregory Benford.
• Non-fiction science procedurals such as the PBS Secrets of the Dead series.[4]

The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to accurately depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, and pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Ralph Peters Ralph Peters (b. ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... The term The Dam Busters, when used by itself, can refer to: Operation Chastise, 617 Squadrons attack on German dams in World War II The 1951 book, The Dam Busters (book) by Paul Brickhill. ... Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, see Timescape (Star Trek). ... Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) in Mobile, Alabama is an American science fiction author and physicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ...

See also

• Hard science fiction