stylization
- n the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style
- In their stylization, codified roles, transvestite stars, rigid themes (which in Takarazuka's case is almost always boy and girl fall in love, conflict ensues and is resolved) and .
- Still, it seems like a gimmick: "realism" in a genre that depends on stylization for its very existence.
- Almost inevitably, great exercises in style deteriorate, through imitation and repetition, into mere stylization.