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Genre
Genre is a French word for ‘Type’. ‘Genre’ is a critical tool that helps us study media texts, producers, and audience responses to texts by dividing them into categories based on common elements.
Generic Characteristics
The aim of genre is to classify media texts based on shared characteristics. These characteristics, which are known as generic characteristics or generic elements, are the ingredients that make up a particular genre. These elements fall into the following categories:
1.Typical Mise-en-scène/Visual style (iconography, props, set design, lighting, temporal and geographic location, costume, shot types, camera angles, special effects).
2.Typical types of Narrative (story, plots, historical setting, set pieces).
3.Themes (the underlying messages, ideas, concepts the story deals with).
4.Generic Types/Stock Characters, i.e. typical character types (do typical male/female roles exist, archetypes?).
Some TV Drama Sub-genres
A ‘sub-genre’ is where genres are subdivided into even more specific categories. TV Drama sub-genres include:
Teen Dramas: These depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters and age-specific situations and anxieties, e.g. Skins.
Soap Operas: These never end, convey a sense of real time and depend entirely on audiences accepting them as ’socially realist’, e.g. Coronation Street.
Costume Dramas: these are often intertexually linked to ‘classic’ novels or plays and offer a set of pleasers that are very different to dramas set in our own world contexts and times, e.g. Sharpe.
Medical/Hospital Dramas: These interplay our vicarious pleasure at witnessing trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff narratives that deploy sop opera conventions, e.g. Holby City.
Police/Crime Dramas: These work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminals and victims, e.g. The Bill.
Docu-dramas: these are set apart from the other by their attempts to dramatise significant real events, which usually have human interest, celebrity focus or political significance, e.g. Hamburg Cell.
Genre
Genre is a French word for ‘Type’. ‘Genre’ is a critical tool that helps us study media texts, producers, and audience responses to texts by dividing them into categories based on common elements.
Generic Characteristics
The aim of genre is to classify media texts based on shared characteristics. These characteristics, which are known as generic characteristics or generic elements, are the ingredients that make up a particular genre. These elements fall into the following categories:
1.Typical Mise-en-scène/Visual style (iconography, props, set design, lighting, temporal and geographic location, costume, shot types, camera angles, special effects).
2.Typical types of Narrative (story, plots, historical setting, set pieces).
3.Themes (the underlying messages, ideas, concepts the story deals with).
4.Generic Types/Stock Characters, i.e. typical character types (do typical male/female roles exist, archetypes?).
Some TV Drama Sub-genres
A ‘sub-genre’ is where genres are subdivided into even more specific categories. TV Drama sub-genres include:
Teen Dramas: These depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters and age-specific situations and anxieties, e.g. Skins.
Soap Operas: These never end, convey a sense of real time and depend entirely on audiences accepting them as ’socially realist’, e.g. Coronation Street.
Costume Dramas: these are often intertexually linked to ‘classic’ novels or plays and offer a set of pleasers that are very different to dramas set in our own world contexts and times, e.g. Sharpe.
Medical/Hospital Dramas: These interplay our vicarious pleasure at witnessing trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff narratives that deploy sop opera conventions, e.g. Holby City.
Police/Crime Dramas: These work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminals and victims, e.g. The Bill.
Docu-dramas: these are set apart from the other by their attempts to dramatise significant real events, which usually have human interest, celebrity focus or political significance, e.g. Hamburg Cell.
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