Repertoire of elements – the theory that a certain genre of film will have similar characters

Corpus – a large structured bit of text, the body of the work

Hybridisation – combining two or more things

Historic specificity – associated with specific time periods

repetition and sameness – genre text producers walk a fine line between repeating successful formulas with only minor variations

variation and change – sufficiently allow familiarity but also make the audience feel the product they are consuming is fresh

narrative image – visual story telling

expectations and hypotheses – the assumptions of the audience based on how its represented

suspend disbelief – ‘buy’ into the film, narrative, character etc

generic regime of verisimilitude – what is probable or likely within a genre / very similar