Genre Theory

What is genre?
A tool that helps us study texts and audience responses to texts by parting them into different categories that have common elements. It has been argued by Daniel Chandler (2001) that the word "genre" comes from the French for "class". The term is used in literary text, media theory and to refer to a distinctive type of text

Sub genres
This is a genre within a genre. Genres are divided up into specific categories to allow us to identify them specfically by their recognisable characteristics. Steve Neale (1995) says that genres are not "systems" but they are "processes of systematization" meaning that they are are not set in stone and genres are dynamic and evolve over time.