Genre means kind or type
Types of Genre:
- Comedy
- Action
- Romance
- Rom Com
- Thriller
- Sci Fi
- Animation
- Adult
- Drama
- Horror
Genres have characteristic features that are known to and recognized by audiences
This "formula" is reproduced again and again
E.G. in a Western we see similar characters, situations and settings.
Audiences and Genres
- Why do audiences find genres satisfying?
- Audiences develop an understanding that certain expectations may be fulfilled and they may find pleasure in predicting what will happen next
- Audiences recognise the key elements of the genre/ conventions and respond according
- These key elements are called paradigms
Two types of paradigms have been identified
- Iconographic: signs symbols (e.g when the costume, props, settings in a Western)
- Structural: How structures in the text deal with issues such as ideology and gender (e.g how gender is represented in a RomCom)
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