Genre

Genre

To start off I will begin by defining “Genre”, it is defined by the Apple dictionary as “a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterised by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.” Too quickly sum up what that means, it is a form of categorisation of different media texts, for example a romantic novel for books, Rap for music, and Thriller for movies.

Hybrid Genre

A hybrid genre is a blend of two or more genre’s, meaning that there is a significant enough amount of elements from two or more genre’s mixed together in the same media text, that it officially becomes a new genre of its own, the hybrid genre. For example in film, there is a romantic genre and there is a comedy genre, if elements of both those genres are used together at a high enough amount in a media text then it becomes a hybrid genre, a mix of the two genre’s, therefor falling under the hybrid genre category: RomCom (Romantic+Comedy=RomCom).

Sub Genre

A Sub Genre can easily be defined as a genre within a genre, a sub category of a specific genre. If the one wants to be specific when categorising a film and finds that a genre is too broad and too general, then one can pay attention to certain specific elements of the film and see what sub category it falls under in the Genre; For example a “Disaster Thriller”, if one finds thriller to broad of a categorisation for this type of movie then one can look into the specifics, there has to be a disaster/natural disaster taking place in the movie, and the main character has to acknowledge the disaster and has to be someway involved in stopping it or getting away from it, and once these specifics are picked up then it can be categorised as a “Disaster Thriller.