Media Studies A-Level
Conventions
What Conventions means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Conventions
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Recurring elements of a genre, such as iconography, narrative patterns, character types and settings, which give audiences expectations and producers a shared repertoire.
Topics that use Conventions
- Genre theory as summarised by Neale (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Conflict and resolution types
- Genre as cultural category
- Genre as repetition and difference
- Genre conventions and change over time
- Genres of integration
- Genres of order
- Institutional and audience shaping of genre
- Neale's genre theory
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