Key Terms

Conventions and Rules: Media conventions are rules or generally accepted ways of combining codes to create form and meaning within a media production.

Sub-Genre: A genre that is part of a larger genre the series is part of the blooming “urban fantasy” which features super natural creatures.

Hybridity: Hybridity is to be understood as a mixture of genres in a movie or anything that involves a genre(s).

Corpus: Corpus means a collection of facts and things. Corpus is associated with storage, indexing, search and delivery of multimedia data.

Repertoire of Elements: Repertoire are key elements of a film that are consistently repeated throughout a genre. Each genre has its own repertoire of elements which elements it as that genre.

Repetition and Sameness: This means that genre text producers walk a fine line between repeating successful formulas with only minor variations.

Variation and Change:

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