Stephen Neale: a prominent UK-based film theorist who made an enormous contribution to genre studies

Repertoire of elements: a group of conventions that the genre includes

Corpus: new texts that are added to the body of similar texts

Hybridisation: the merging of elements of different genres in order to create newer and more of a variety of genres

Historic specificity: the genre is associated with different time periods

Repetition and sameness: regular ideas of the genre not changing or being altered to become a new product within the genre

Variation and change: the change of specific conventions in genres to create new conventions

Narrative image: how the audience sees the genre due to the way it’s presented or spoke about

Expectations and hypotheses: the audiences assumption of what the product contains from what’s used in marketing

Suspend disbelief: make the audience believe the events occuring within a movie

Generic regime of verisimilitude:

Conventions and rules: the key ideas of what the genre itself should contain

Sub-genre:

Hybridity:

Genres of order and integration:

Genre as cultural category: