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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".<ref name="oxford">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>M. Singer/W. Walker, Bending Genre (2013) p. 21-2</ref> In cinema, the merging of two or more separate genres attracts a broader range of audience type.<ref name="Aldredge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Stylesphere">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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LiteratureEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Many contemporary women of color have published cross-genre works, including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Giannina Braschi, Guadalupe Nettel, and Bhanu Kapil.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Giannina Braschi creates linguistic and structural hybrids of comic fantasy and tragic comedy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English prose and poetry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Carmen Maria Machado mixes psychological realism and science fiction with both humor and elements of gothic horror.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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..."<ref>Koontz, Dean. "Afterword", Lightning, G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition, January 1988. Berkley Publishing Group, mass market edition, May 1989. p. 360</ref>

FilmEdit

Examples of hybrid genre films include:

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  • Logan (2017; superhero, Western)<ref name=ding2017b/><ref name=farout/>

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TV seriesEdit

  • Lost (2004-2010; adventure, mystery, science fiction, serial drama, supernatural, survival, thriller)<ref name="Lost">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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List of named hybrid genresEdit

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