repertoire of elements- Repeated/shared features of movies that belong to a specific genre (Horror and night time setting, jump scares, zombies

corpus- The general body of similar texts of a genre

hybridization- when a movie includes conventions from another genre

historic specificity- When a genre is related to a specific time period (e.g. western movies)

repetition and sameness- When a genre maintains similar conventions throughout

variation and change- when a genre changes its conventions over time and changes its overall identity

narrative image- the use of visual representations in order to inflict emotions/thoughts

expectation and hypotheses- a proposed explanation for a phenomenon

suspend disbelief– when an audience is engaged within a narrative image, giving up realism in order to receive the gift of enjoyment from a narrative image

generic regime of verisimilitude- the true representation of something ( mise en scene)