What is Genre?
Genre is a text wchich is identified through key elements or paradigms, that have occured or can occur within other texts of the same genre. There are many types of genres in the music industry for example Rock, Pop, Dance etc.
Paradigms may be grouping into the following:
Iconography: The main signs and symbolys that you see.
Structure: Ways in whcih the text has been put together and the different shapes that it takes forward.
Narrative: The story that has been created in a constructive format such as predictable situations, conflicts, obstacles and resolutions.
Identity: this can sometimes be a sterotype or similar types of characters, roles, qualities or behaviour seen.
Theme: This is the idea and issues that it deals with.
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