FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The X-Files, Hybridity
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Cultural myths, beliefs and practices > these things define us culturally. System of codes, conventions and visual styles > a system of techniques implied. Parody depends on recognition > depends on your knowledge of the codes. Extension > where some generic labels are too broad to be narrowed down (e. g. comedy, what does that mean?) Normativism > have a preconceived (i. e. normal) ideas of genre relationships. Biologism > the assumption that genres have a life cycle (i. e. they are born, they mature and then they go into periodic decline/die) Emphasis on viewership > we have to view genre and text as part of our culture (they are not dependent things)
