• Genre rests around a relationship between similarities and differences
• Genres are important for raising expectations from a small snippet
• Genres are important for institutions and audiences

“saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures“

Scorcese, A personal Journey through American Cinema (1995)

• many movies the same as made by same people (Disney, Warner bro, Universal etc.)

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•  predictable expectations– always behaving or occurring in the way expected.
• reinforced-strengthen (an existing feeling, idea, or habit)
• amplify -enlarge upon or add detail to
• repertoire of elements–  features of a film that are repeated within a genre
• corpus– a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject
• verisimilitude-the appearance of being true or real
• realism– the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life
• construction of reality–  a phenomenon that we know and is independent, that is, does not depend on the existence of a particular individual
• historically specific–  Historical people, situations, or things existed in the past and are considered to be a part of history
• sub-genres– genre that is part of a larger genre
• hybrid genres–  they share the conventions of more than one genre.