Media Studies A-Level
Genre as cultural category
What Genre as cultural category means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Genre as cultural category
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A way of describing genre as a category that circulates in culture rather than simply a bundle of repeated textual conventions.
Topics that use Genre as cultural category
- Genre theory as summarised by Neale (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Conflict and resolution types
- Conventions
- 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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