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Genres are not simply features of texts, but are mediating frameworks between texts, makers and interpreters. Sub-heading. Genres as text studies The distinctive textual properties of a genre typically listed by film and television theorists include:

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 * //narrative// - similar (sometimes formulaic) plots and structures, predictable situations, sequences, episodes, obstacles, conflicts and resolutions;
 * //characterization// - similar types of characters (sometimes stereotypes), roles, personal qualities, motivations, goals, behaviour;
 * basic //themes//, topics, subject matter (social, cultural, psychological, professional, political, sexual, moral), values and what Stanley Solomon refers to as recurrent 'patterns of meaning' (Solomon 1995: 456);
 * //setting// - geographical and historical;
 * //iconography// (echoing the narrative, characterization, themes and setting) - a familiar stock of images or motifs, the connotations of which have become fixed; primarily but not necessarily visual, including décor, costume and objects, certain 'typecast' performers (some of whom may have become 'icons'), familiar patterns of dialogue, characteristic music and sounds, and appropriate physical topography; and
 * [|filmic techniques] - stylistic or formal conventions of camerawork, lighting, sound-recording, use of colour, editing etc. (viewers are often less conscious of such conventions than of those relating to content).: ref>http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre7.html