Genre means a ‘kind’ or ‘type’ and is a way of categorising films and TV programmes. Before you start studying TV drama, a broad television genre, you need to think about the role genre plays in broadcasters’ and television producers’ thinking as well as in audiences’ viewing. This will help put into context your detailed work on the TV drama genre.
Think about your own television viewing:
What did you watch over Christmas?
Do you normally watch these programmes during the rest of the year?
What are some of your favourite TV programmes?
Why do you like them?
Are you aware that you are looking at a programme in a particular genre?
Genres can be HYBRIDS.
(A hybrid genre is a mixture of two or more different genres.)
Genres can be divided into SUBGENRES.
(A subgenre is a very specialist form of the genre with its own particular forms and conventions.)
Media Magazine Conference 2015
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