Chapter 4. THE MEDIUM-SIZED LIST OF STORY THEMES

  • Adventure: period piece

  • Adventure: pulp/"two-fisted" action

  • Adventure: survival/disaster

  • Adventure: swashbuckler/pirate

  • Blaxplotation/grindhouse

  • Caper/heist/thief

  • Cartoon/anthropomorphic

  • Comedy: romantic

  • Comedy: screwball/slapstick

  • Crime drama/police

  • Documentary/showbiz

  • Educational

  • Erotic

  • Espionage

  • Family drama

  • Fantasy: fairytale

  • Fantasy: mythology (Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Norse, and so on)

  • Fantasy: swords and sorcery

  • Fantasy: whimsical

  • Film noir/hard-boiled detective

  • Game show

  • Horror: B-movie/giant monster

  • Horror: gothic (vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein)

  • Horror: sci-fi

  • Horror: torture porn/slasher

  • Horror: zombie/end of the world

  • Martial arts/ninja

  • Medical drama

  • Mobster/gangster

  • Musical

  • Music/rock 'n' roll

  • Mystery

  • Nurture/tamagotchi

  • Political

  • School/teen drama

  • Sci-fi: cyberpunk

  • Sci-fi: Japanese/Sentai/giant robot

  • Sci-fi: realistic

  • Sci-fi: retro (1930s)

  • Sci-fi: space opera

  • Sci-fi: steampunk

  • Sci-fi: undersea

  • Sports: Olympic

  • Sports: racing

  • Sports: team (American football, soccer, hockey, baseball, basketball, and so on)

  • Superhero

  • War (World War I, World War II, American Revolution, Crusades, Napoleonic, American Civil War, Iraq conflict, Vietnam[184])

  • Western/spaghetti western



[184] I apologize in advance to all of my international readers for my American bias towards warfare and history.

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