Conventions and Rules –

Sub-Genre –

Hybridity –

Genres of order and integration –

‘Genre as cultural category’ –

Repertoire of Elements – Key elements of a film that are consistently repeated throughout a genre

Corpus – Body of the genre

Hybridization – More than one genre of the film

Historic Specificity – Associated with different time periods

Repetition and Sameness – Idea of the genre not changing but become a new product with the genre

Variation and Change – A slight change

Expectations and Hypotheses –

Suspend Disbelief –

Generic Regime of Verisimilitude –

The Killing is a TV series in danish, Katz, Gurevitch and Haas came up with a theory of uses and gratification which shows that watching this series could be a social need because the people that watch it could want more knowledge of the world or for the personal need of enjoyment. Young and Rubicam came up with some photographic descriptors and this describes people who desire to watch the danish series would most likely be explorers and most likely not be a struggler.

• Positive Stereotypes – Positive stereotypes are traits and characteristics that are favorable.

Negative Stereotypes – Negative stereotypes are traits and characteristics that are unfavorable.

• Counter-types – When a producer tries to break stereotypes. For example changing the main signifier.

• Misrepresentation – The action or offence of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something.

• Selective representation – When a group of people are more represented than others, this is used to push forward the idea.

• Dominant ideology – Dominant ideology denotes the attitudes, beliefs, values, and morals shared by the majority of the people in a given society.

• Constructed reality – The belief that we act and behave in a certain due to the influence media has on us.

• Hegemony – Media hegemony means the dominance of certain aspects of life. The dominance a group has over other groups.

• Audience positioning – Techniques used by a text producer to get the audience to understand the ideology of the text.