- from french/origin latin word for kind/class
- all have awareness of genre
- we rely on. helps us categorise and classify
- pick up from things we've read/ seen or been told
- become highly conditioned to expect certain things
- create stereotype
- become highly critical/reject or distrust anything that doesn't follow this norm , if it fails to follow the genre conventions
- genre:
- kids
- comedy
- drama
- entertainment
- factual
- films
- learning
- lifestyle
- music
- news
- sport
- religion
- sub genre - e.g food is sub genre of lifestyle
- hybrid - e.g a children's factual program
- genre drama - sub genre:
- medical drama
- crime drama
- fantasy drama
- teen drama
- science fiction drama
- comedy drama
- continuing dramas - Eastenders
- Period/ Historical Dramas
- one-off
- Series - Episodes
- Serial - continuing - Holby City
Verisimilitude - a creation of a "real" world in which you can believe in.
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