Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Genre, subgenre and hybrid genre

I looked up meanings and definitions of important uses of words for a thriller. For instance, I researched these particular, important words:

Genre - The word 'genre' comes from the French word meaning 'type' or 'class'. Media genres appear within a medium (film, television) such as the "horror" film or the television "situation comedy". A genre can be recognised by its common set of distinguishing features.

Subgenre – A subgenre is when you combine two genres together. For example, romantic comedy.

Hybrid Genre – Hybrid means a mixture/fusion, so a Hybrid in film means three or more genres or mixtures of sub-genres. For instance, drama, action and natural disaster.

Subgenres

Action Thriller – Focusing on action within a thriller, this is common in movies than novels because of its visual appeal and effects, for instance violence seen and explosive aspects.
Example : ‘The Bourne Identity’

Crime Thriller – Crime thrillers are usually and most often from the criminals perspective. From this point of view, physical action is show usually shown including appearance from police collecting evidence from a crime scene.
Example: ‘Point Break’

Psychological Thriller – In this particular subgenre, mental contributes are shown instead of physical conflict. Usually psychological thrillers deal with a build up of dangerous situations causing uncomfortable scenes of battle inside and out of their heads.

Example: ‘Se7en’



Spy Thriller: Spy novels should normally always be shown in a thriller; because of this high action and physicality through actors are seen, normally creating accurate conventions of a thriller.
Example: ‘Berlin Game’



Disaster Thriller – In this subgenre, the protagonist usually try’s to control and stop a natural disaster. The effect of this is to normally save themselves before time had run out.
Example: ‘The Road’

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