GSAFD

GSAFD is an acronym for Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction , Drama, etc., first published in 1990 as a recommendation of a national standard practice in assigning genre headings to fiction.

GSAFD headings May Be used in cataloguing works in addition to or in place of LCSH headings.

The headings are defined as:

  • Adventure fiction
  • Adventure films
  • Adventure radio programs
  • Adventure television programs
  • Allegories
  • Alternative histories (Fiction)
  • Animated films
  • Animated television programs
  • Arthurian romances
  • Autobiographical fiction
  • Bible fiction
  • Bible films
  • Bible plays
  • Bildungsromans
  • Biographical fiction
  • Biographical films
  • Biographical radio programs
  • Biographical television programs
  • Black humor (Literature)
  • Christian fiction
  • Comedies
  • Comedy films
  • Comedy radio programs
  • Comedy television programs
  • Comic books, strips, etc.
  • Didactic drama
  • Didactic fiction
  • Didactic poetry
  • Dystopias
  • Elegiac poetry
  • Epic fiction
  • Epic films
  • Epic poetry
  • Epistolary fiction
  • Epistolary poetry
  • [...] comic books, strips, etc.
  • [...] fiction
  • [...] films
  • [...] poetry
  • Fables
  • Fairy tales
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Fantasy films
  • Fantasy poetry
  • Fantasy radio programs
  • Fantasy television programs
  • Farces
  • Feature films
  • Film noir
  • Folklore
  • Gangster films
  • Ghost stories
  • Gothic fiction
  • Historical drama
  • Historical fiction
  • Historical films
  • Historical poetry
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror films
  • Horror plays
  • Horror radio programs
  • Horror television programs
  • Humorous fiction
  • Humorous poetry
  • Legal drama
  • Legal drama (Films)
  • Legal drama (Radio programs)
  • Legal drama (Television programs)
  • Legal stories
  • Legends
  • Love poetry
  • Love stories
  • Medical drama (Films)
  • Medical drama (Radio programs)
  • Medical drama (Television programs)
  • Medical novels
  • Melodrama
  • Melodramatic fiction
  • Moralities
  • Motion picture plays
  • Motion picture serials
  • Movie novels
  • MusicAL films
  • Mysteries and miracle plays
  • Mystery comic books, strips, etc.
  • Mystery fiction
  • Mystery films
  • Mystery plays
  • Mystery radio programs
  • Mystery television programs
  • Narrative poetry
  • Noir fiction
  • Occult fiction
  • Parables
  • Passion plays
  • Pastoral drama
  • Pastoral fiction
  • Pastoral poetry
  • Picaresque literature
  • Radio and television novels
  • Radio plays
  • Radio scripts
  • Radio serials
  • Regency fiction
  • Road fiction
  • Robinsonades
  • Romances
  • Romans à clef
  • Romantic suspense fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.
  • Science fiction films
  • Science fiction plays
  • Science fiction poetry
  • Science fiction radio programs
  • Science fiction television programs
  • Sea stories
  • Short films
  • Short stories
  • Silent films
  • Spy films
  • Spy radio programs
  • Spy stories
  • Spy television programs
  • Superhero comic books, strips, etc.
  • Superhero films
  • Superhero radio programs
  • Superhero television programs
  • Suspense fiction
  • Suspense films
  • Suspense radio programs
  • Suspense television programs
  • Tall tales
  • Television movies
  • Television plays
  • Television scripts
  • Television serials
  • Tragedies
  • Utopian fiction
  • Variety films
  • Variety shows (Radio programs)
  • Variety shows (Television programs)
  • Voyages, Imaginary
  • War films
  • War poetry
  • War radio programs
  • War stories
  • War television programs
  • Western comic books, strips, etc.
  • Western films
  • Western radio programs
  • Western stories
  • Western television programs