Stephen Neale: A prominent UK based film theorist who has contributed to the field of genre studies.

Repertoire of Elements: A group of conventions that a product of a genre adheres to.

Corpus: A body of similar texts that new texts are added to.

Hybridization: The merging of different genres to create new ones.

Historic Specificity: When a genre is associated with a certain time period.

Repetition and Sameness: The regular conventions of the genre not changing due to new products in the genre

Variation and change: The change of conventions in a genre or the introduction of new conventions.

Narrative Image: How audiences view the genre based on how it is presented.

Expectations and hypotheses: The assumptions of what a product contains based on conventions used in marketing.

Suspend Disbelief: How the creators get an audience to immerse themselves in a product.

Generic Regime of Verisimilitude:

Conventions and rules: The dominant ideas of what a genre should contain.

Sub-genre: A subdivision of a genre

Hybridity:

Genres of Order and Integration:

Genre as cultural category: