Stephen Neale: UK film theorist, he said that genres use repeated types of features. Repertoire of elements and differences, views genre as a process

Repertoire of elements: Repeated features that are the same and recognisable as a specif genre. For example Comedy consists of: Jokes, stupid actions, puns and happy behaviour.

Corpus: Genres evolve as new texts are added to similar text. Slight changes are made to the audience, sound and text.

Hybridisation: The merging of different genres to create a sub-genre so that there can be more than one genre in a text. like a romance comedy rom/com.

Historic specificity: Genres that are associated with a specific time and were popular at a that time.

Repetition and sameness: Texts could get boring and repetitive if the they’re the same as other texts.

Variation and change: New things introduced in a text so the audience doesn’t get bored.

Narrative image: A story is told through moving images, and has a similar narrative structure to texts in that genre.

Expectations and hypothesis: Audiences predict what’s going to happen. For example, in a horror film you can tell when a jump scare is about to occur because the music turns into a crescendo or is silent.

Suspend disbelief : The audience must care about the characters in order for them to remain interested. This can be done by making them think a certain way and that something is going to happen to that character. This is known as Audience positioning.

Generic regime of verisimilitude: To make things the same so it’s believable.

 Conventions and rules: The certain rules and structures. Specific features that must to be included in a text to make it a certain genre. for example, suspenseful music to make it out like a jump scare will occur.

Sub-genre:  A genre that has been derived from the original main genre, so it doesn’t contain all of the required features.