Genre and Intertextuality

Genre and intertextuality

Genre - A type of media product governed by implicit rules that are shared by the makers of the product and the audience for it.

Genre paradigms - also known as genre conventions are aspects of media text (for example mise-en-scene and editing) that demonstrate to the audience what genre the media product is.

Iconography - The familiar signs of a genre

Genre is more complicated than it first seems - every genre has multiple subgenres and hybrid genres.

Subgenre - Small section of a bigger genre, more specific. A genre within a genre.

Hybrid genre - Two or more genres spliced together

Video game genres:
FPS
RPG
JRPG
MOBA
Sidescroller
Platformer
Strategy
Adventure
Action
Story
Sports
Indie?
Triple A?
Simulator
Resource Management
Arcade

Intertextuality - The shaping of texts meaning through referencing or alluding to other text.

Expands the target audience by bringing in references from other genres, this makes it more relatable even if subconsciously, allows the audience to feel special through these easter eggs, paying tribute/homage to films and works, keeps show relevant, allows to piggy back on famous scenes.

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