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Forget cross-genre for the moment. What about cross-media works? When is something a poem and when is it a piece of flash? Are there other types of cross-media works other than just prose and poetry?
 

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Ummm... Well, I suppose plays/videos/operas are mixes of poetry, music, prose, and visuals. Lemme see...

Tom Waits is famous for doing strange spoken word prose-poetry stuff mixed with music, the most accessible of which would probably be "What's he building in there?" To add the visual aspect, the video for it is here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nMqxNPsfN50

This is one of the better "music" videos I've run across. Prepare to be creeped out, mind.
 

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When is it a comic book and when is it a graphic novel? :)

I think there are some overlaps: podcast vs. radio broadcast vs. radio plays, graphics novel serving as a script (Frank Miller's 300, for example). Of course, audio books are written words spoken. Movies turning into video games and vice versa.

I think as digital media become the norm, and the Internet (and Internet 2 is coming) becomes mainstream, there will be more and more crossovers. It's only a good thing for writers.
 

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Movies turning into video games and vice versa.

This isn't the same as cross-genre. You're talking about adaptions, which is a different thing entirely. I'm talking about such things as prose poetry, which read almost like flash and, in some cases, could be published as flash.
 

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What exactly is "flash" in this question?


I think it refers to Flash Fiction, which is fiction of 100 words or less, if I'm not mistaken.

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I wonder if cross-media would include songs and poetry? They do seem similar a lot of the time, and in some cases I know of poems that became songs (The Star-Spangled Banner comes to mind here).
 

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Flash is extremely short fiction. The exact length that defines flash varies depending on the context or who is being asked.
 

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This isn't the same as cross-genre. You're talking about adaptions, which is a different thing entirely. I'm talking about such things as prose poetry, which read almost like flash and, in some cases, could be published as flash.

Oh I see. The same work can be marketed as different genres/media. Like comic book vs. graphics novel. Radio vs. podcast. What about mixed media? Video presentation of a book reading via YouTube?
 
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