- the word genre comes from French as 'kind' or 'class'
- helps categorise, classify and identify things
- linked with codes and conventions
- stereotyping
- can be stereotyped even if the person hasn't experienced it
- genre allows people to have certain expectations so that things can become shocking if it's unexpected
- sub-genre e.g. lifestyle and leisure --> food, property, auctions, cars etc.
- hybrid e.g. children's program --> comedy, factual etc.
Our focus: Drama
- fantasy
- period/historical
- medical
- docu-drama
- sci-fi
- teen
- comedy
- continuing drama (soap operas / don't come off the screen) one-off (1 episode), series (episodes) and serial (continuing)
- crime
Verisimilitude: creation of reality which audience believe in
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