sub-genre
Noun
Meaning
sub-genre (plural sub-genres)
Alternative form of subgenre.
Synonyms
Examples
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
Boasting a higher budget and heightened gore, the film was seminal in redefining the zombie sub-genre as a quartet of survivors barricaded themselves within a shopping mall to endure the waves of the ravenous undead.
Australians’ love of authority figures has fuelled an entire sub-genre of reality TV – hell, we’ll even dabble with border security agents on occasion.
Dramatics aside, the original a film that's remained timeless over the years, is a well thought out slasher flick that very well may have reinvigorated the sub-genre.
Home invasion movies are a sub-genre of many horror and thrillers films that prey upon the incredibly realistic fear of the safety of a home being violated.