Hybrid genre
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A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. Hybrid genre works are also referred to as cross-genre, multi-genre, mixed genre, or fusion genre. Some hybrid genres have acquired their own specialised names, such as comedy drama ("dramedy"), romantic comedy ("rom-com"), horror Western, and docudrama.
A Dictionary of Media and Communication describes hybrid genre as "the combination of two or more genres", which may combine elements of more than one genre and/or which may "cut across categories such as fact and fiction".[1]
Hybrid genres are a longstanding element in the fictional process. An early literature example is William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, with its blend of poetry, prose, and engravings.[2] In cinema, the merging of two or more separate genres attracts a broader range of audience type.[3][4]
Examples
Literature
In contemporary literature, Dimitris Lyacos's trilogy Poena Damni combines fictional prose with drama and poetry in a multilayered narrative developing through the different characters of the work.[5]
Many contemporary women of color have published cross-genre works, including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Giannina Braschi, Guadalupe Nettel, and Bhanu Kapil.[6] Giannina Braschi creates linguistic and structural hybrids of comic fantasy and tragic comedy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English prose and poetry.[7][8] Carmen Maria Machado mixes psychological realism and science fiction with both humor and elements of gothic horror.[9]
Dean Koontz considers himself a cross-genre writer, not a horror writer: "I write cross-genre books-suspense mixed with love story, with humor, sometimes with two tablespoons of science fiction, sometimes with a pinch of horror, sometimes with a sprinkle of paprika..."[10]
Film
Examples of hybrid genre films include:
- Grease (1978; musical, comedy, romance, coming-of-age)[11]
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; live action, animation, mystery)[11]
- Back to the Future 3 (1990; science fiction and western)[1]
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002; rom-com, psychological drama, musical, screwball comedy)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004; horror, survival, comedy)[11]
- Let the Right One In (2008; horror (vampire), romance, coming-of-age, Nordic noir)[12]
- Drive (2011; art-house drama, B-movie)[13]
- Deadpool (2016; superhero, action, comedy)[11]
- Elle (2016; erotic thriller, Black comedy, satire)[14]
- Logan (2017; superhero, Western)[14][11]
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017; horror, Greek tragedy, dark comedy)[13]
- Parasite (2019; comedy, drama, thriller)[11]
- Bones and All (2022; road film, coming-of-age, romance, horror)[15]
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022; action, fantasy, sci-fi)
- Sinners (2025; horror (vampire), revisionist Western, musical)[16][17]
TV series
- Lost (2004–2010; adventure, mystery, science fiction, serial drama, supernatural, survival, thriller)[18]
List of named hybrid genres
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- Action comedy (action and comedy)
- Action drama (action and drama)
- Action thriller (action and thriller)
- Action horror (action and horror)
- Comedy drama (comedy and drama)
- Comedy horror (comedy and horror)
- Comedy thriller (comedy and thriller)
- Comic fantasy (comedy and fantasy)
- Comic science fiction (comedy and science fiction)
- Crime drama (crime and drama)
- Crime fantasy (crime and fantasy)[19]
- Dark fantasy (horror and fantasy)
- Docudrama (dramatised documentary)
- Docufiction (documentary and fiction)
- Ethnofiction (ethnography and fiction)
- Fantasy Western (fantasy and Western)
- Horror Western (horror and Western)
- Romantic comedy (romance and comedy)
- Romantic fantasy (romance and fantasy)
- Science fantasy (science fiction and fantasy)
- Science fiction Western (science fiction and Western)
- Tragicomedy (tragedy and comedy)
- Zombie comedy (zombie fiction and comedy)
See also
References
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