Define key terms

Define each of these key terms

  • Repertoire of elements – Characters. covers the theory that a certain genre of film will have similar characters. In a crime film there will often be the Italian mobster. Setting. covers the idea that the same genre of film will have similar settings.
  • Corpus – a collection of written or spoken language data in a computer-readable format. It brings together large quantities of language evidence from a variety of real situations which lexicographers use to compile accurate and meaningful dictionary entries.
  • Hybridisation – Hybridization is a term used to describe a type of media convergence whereby a new mode emerges containing elements of combined media. Hybrid media represent most modern media and the concept that different media forms can work together to create new media.
  • Historic specificity –
  • Repetition and Sameness
  • Variation and change
  • Narrative image
  • Expectations and hypotheses
  • Suspend disbelief
  • Generic regime of verisimilitude

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