The anthology blurs the traditional boundaries of genre expectations by commissioning twelve crime stories from Australian writers, in each case challenging the writer to produce a story that also worked with the conventions of another genre; examples include the western, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Goldsmith's tastes were too diverse for Fantastic to be limited to genre fantasy, however, and her willingness to buy fiction she liked, regardless of genre expectations, allowed many new writers to flourish on the pages of both Amazing and Fantastic.

In editing, I had all this footage, which me and my editor built the movie out of, with never worrying about genre expectation.

While acknowledging the value of genre fiction, whether classical or modern, we will always move towards new openings, rupturing existing genre expectations.

Alas, Mr. McLean's commitment to contemporary genre expectations turns out to be unwavering and what follows these imaginative night tremors is just the usual butchery.

Miller specifically highlights Corder's defiance of genre expectations within Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne, suggesting that "he fuses autobiography, postmodern rhetoric, and nineteenth-century American historiography".

The very lowest stratum of trivial fiction is based entirely on genre expectations, which it fixes with serializations and identifiable brand names.

Vognar wrote that Eastern Promises shares themes of "ambiguous identity and rage-soaked duality" with A History of Violence and said both films "have a lock-step precision and both take a sly kind of joy in subverting genre expectations."

Joel Coen found the film "interesting in a genre way; but it was also interesting to us because it subverts the genre expectations."

A trio of detective stories found Woodrell's themes at odds with genre expectations, and a historical novel, "Woe to Live On" (1987), was well executed but a dead end.