Repertoire of elements = these are the key elements of a film/TV series that are consistently repeated through a specific genre.

Corpus = A collection of language samples that are either written or spoken example of words, sentences, phrases, or text.

Hybridisation = it’s a term that is used to describe a type of media convergence, where a new mode is created that includes elements of combined media

Historic Specificity = it is the elements that are needed to define modernity and traditionalism in particular events and moments of time.

Repetition and sameness = Repetition is when you, more than once, repeat something over and over again. Sameness is when you compare two things and identify how they are similar to each other and can be seen as a contrasive to repetition.

Variation and change = variation are signs that can signify a change in the social world and is when you rotate between different elements. For example, a TV series might variate and change their camera angles, to create suspense and to make the programme more interesting than if it was just filmed still, with no camera motion.

Narrative Image = Narrative images are used to tell a story in a non-verbal, communicated way. The narrative is important as it identifies the plot of the story being told, therefore in TV series, narrative images are important to set the scene.

Expectations and Hypotheses = A hypothesis is a theory that the audience makes, with limited evidence and serves as a starting point for further investigation. Expectation is when you believe something should happen, based on the information you are given.

Suspend disbelief = Suspend disbelief is when you temporarily allow yourself to believe something which actually is not true.

Generic regime of verisimilitude = verisimilitude is the lifelikeness of a piece of fiction, which actually isn’t based on a true story, but appears to be due to its lifelikeness. Generic regime of verisimilitude is when all different elements obey the rules of a generic system, thus making it realistic, even though the piece of media might actually be fiction.

Conventions and rules = Conventions and rules are the elements that the piece of Media has to follow, and this applies to all media that falls in the same category. For example, in music videos, the conventions and rules are that all the music videos uploaded must not have any work that has been copyrighted by other artists.

Sub-genre = this is the subcategories you get within a specific genre. For example, the academic mystery is a sub-genre of the mystery genre.

Hybridity = it refers to mixtures and is the cross between two separate races, genres or cultures. Hybrid means ‘mixture’, therefore hybridity is the mixture of something.

‘Genres of order and integration’ (Thomas Schatz) = Schatz said that there are 2 types of genres, one is used to tell the stories about the enforcement of gender, whereas the other type of genre is used to describe the integration of community.

‘Genre as cultural category’ = these are groups who co-operate together and use negotiation to solve the problems which had disrupted the equilibrium and that the problems disrupting the equilibrium could be integrated into the wider community.