Stephen Neale- is a British philosopher and specialist in the philosophy of language who has written extensively about meaning, information, interpretation, and communication.

Repertoire of elements- a group of generic elements in that genre. These elements include, characters, audience, setting, themes, style, narrative and iconography.

Corpus- is a collection of written or spoken language data in a computer format. It brings together large quantities of language evidence from a variety of real situation.

Hybridisation- is the strategic use of bringing to things together (eg. rom-com).

Historic specificity- are associated with certain time periods.

Repetition and sameness- the act of repeating something and sameness is where things are compared and shown how they are similar.

Variation and change- is when there is a change or slight difference but the things are still similar.

Narrative image- is where an image is used to tell a story and create a picture of what is happening.

Expectations and hypotheses- is when you believe something is going to happen due to prior knowledge, or beliefs. Hypotheses is where an idea man be an answer to a problem.

Suspend disbelief- allows someone to believe something that is not true, it can be done to enjoy something eg. a movie.

Generic regime of verisimilitude- means the quality of resembling reality.

Conventions and rules- are set agreed, or generally accepted norms, social-norms or criteria.

Sub-genre- a genre that is part of a larger genre.

Hybridity- is something that is mixed. It is a cross between two separate races, plants or cultures.

Genres of order and integration (Thomas Schatz)- he believes that there are only two genres: genres of order (western, gangster, sci-fi, horror, etc) and genres of integration (musicals, comedies, melodramas, etc.

• Its focused on two parents who go to France and lose sight of their son.
• The series was originally titled The Breakdown
• Filming began in February 2014 with help from the Belgian government’s tax shelter scheme
• The story is paralleled by flashbacks to 2014 and is set near a British army garrison in Eckhausen, Germany
• There are 16 episodes
• There are two series
• It was written by the brothers Harry and Williams

• Stephen Neale= is a British philosopher 
• Repertoire of elements= covers the theory that a certain genre of film will have similar characters.
• corpus= when genres evolve as new texts are added to the body of similar texts
• hybridisation= the combination of genre or subgenre
• historical specificity= genres that are associated with certain periods of times
• repetition= repeating something , objects words, actions
• sameness=  can be thought as contrastives to repetition, as can novelty and creativity.
• variation and change= changing something from how it is or how it should happen
• narrative image= uses the power of visual to tell a story
• expectations and hypothesis= what the audience think is going to happen
• suspend disbelief = believe what you see knowing its not real
• generic regime of verisimilitude= things that are similar and believable, engaging

• Stephen Neale – Invented the the idea of genre theory
• Repertoire of elements – A collection of static groups which consistently have similar elements.
• Corpus – When genres evolve as new texts are added to the body of similar texts.
• Hybridisation – The combination of genre or subgenre.
• Historic specificity – Genres that are associated with certain time periods.
• Repetition and sameness – Something repeated over and over again.
• Variation and change – Something different.
• Narrative Image – Telling a story in the moment or how its going or sequence of events unfolding over time.
• Expectations and hypothesis – What the audience think is going to happen.
• Suspend disbelief – To immerse yourself in a fictional narrative.
• Generic regime of verisimilitude – Refers to what is likely to happen in ina genre.

CATEGORY	SIMILARITIES	DIFFERENCES	THEORY
CHARACTERS	the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order Both involve female children	The Killing, The missing has the main detective as female	PROPP
NARRATIVE	the first episode often introduces a lot of different characters	difference in what happens to the child (one gets killed, one goes missing)	TODOROV
THEMES	the use of binary oppositions around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice.	family justice	LEVI-STRAUSS
REPRESENTATION	reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural	representation of a stereotypical victim	SEMIOTICS
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)	opening montage sequence that often gives clues as to the whole series – themes, locations, characters, events etc.
SETTING	a forest & a more urban area	lake

In what ways is ‘genre’ beneficial for transnational audiences?

• a lot of the genres are very similar in content so you know what to expect
• reoccurring tropes in genre allow the content to be understood more easily for the audience

In what ways is ‘genre’ beneficial for transnational institutions?

• they can be consumed by an international audience as they know what to expect from a particular genre
• this brings in more money and a larger engagement with a wider audience

PSB stands for Public Service Broadcasting

It consists of radio and television programmes that are broadcasted with the main aim to provide entertainment, news or advice to the general public without trying to make a profit.