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Understanding The Genre
Understanding The Genre
Understanding The Genre
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CHAPTER 2:
Understand ways in which texts are not unique but often take
hybrid forms and always relate to other texts via the process
known as intertextuality
Identify how different media genres are attributed with varying
degrees of status and cultural value.
Recognize some key attributes of ‘melodrama’ as it operates
across both factual and fictional genres.
What is Genre?
Category that a media text falls into,
Horror Film, Comedy Film, Romantic
a kind. Film, Hip-hop Song et. al.
rtoires of elements
fluid systems of learnt conventions and expectations.
The way in which the technical elements are used. Stars, costumes, editing
Audio-visual element style, music, voices, and other sound effects which you would associate
with particular genres.
Narrative Storyline- how the story is told. Action film, Romance film, et. al.