Genre is based around similarities and differences.

Genre is a way of thinking about media production (INSTITUTIONS) and media reception (AUDIENCES)

Texts hold similar patterns, codes and conventions that are both PREDICTABLE and EXPECTED, but are also INNOVATIVE and UNEXPECTED.

Genres can have sub-genres as well as hybrid genres (a combination of 2 genres)

It could be said that “genre is a system of codes, conventions and visual styles which enables an audience to determine rapidly and with some complexity the kind of narrative they are viewing” (Turner p.97 Film as Social Practice)

Steve Neale

predictable expectations- Something that can be guessed about a specific thing

reinforced–

amplify 

repertoire of elements

corpus 

verisimilitude– the appearance of being true or real.

realism 

construction of reality.

 historically specific 

hybrid genres/sub genres