Genre Conventions Codes and Representation
Genre is a word taken from the French language and is defined in the dictionary as: ‘Kind, category or sort – especially of literacy or artistic work. ... Nowadays most cultural production, be it television, magazines, music, painting or literature, ends up being assigned to one genre or another. In all cases what makes a genre possible is the existence of an identified repetition across a series of productions, which results in them, being described as a particular type. An important term in genre analysis is ‘convention’, meaning the way in which something is usually done.