Steve Neale

• A genre is a catagory, type, style.
• Distinguished by purpose and content.
• Subgenere is a spring off from a different genre.
• Hybrid genre is a mixture.
• Genres have a repetition of elements.
• When genres are added to each other Repertoire of elements.
• New texts are added to the body of old texts (corpus)
• Hybridisation between genres
• Some genres have historic specificity (associated with time periods) Tend to be popular at a specific historical time.
• Tensions between repetition and sameness and variation and change. A fine line of repeating but variating.
• Genres carry a narrative image which is communicated by word of mouth, which is closely connected with their expectations and hypotheses based on their views of that genre.
• A spectator must suspend disbelief in order to submerse themselves fully, buy into the product.
• The generic regime of verisimilitude refers to what is probable in a genre,