Media Studies A-Level
Neale's genre theory
What Neale's genre theory means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Neale's genre theory
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A theoretical framing for analysis that presents genre as a cultural category produced and negotiated culturally, to be supported with a specific example rather than asserted as a label alone.
Topics that use Neale's genre theory
- Genre theory as summarised by Neale (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Conflict and resolution types
- Conventions
- 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
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