Genre Theories

John Fiske is an American Professor states the different between the real image and representation of the story and the re-enactment of the story.

He states that after experiencing a narrative for you in real life the story you are watching or listing to makes more sense therefore changing it more into the experience that you remember or understand better. However even watching a similar text of the experience would change their views of what they are watching. Moreover he believes that a text is used for the viewer to make their own representation of it as the producer puts it to view in their way in which can occasionally make you as the viewer feel what it is to experience.

Jacques Derrida is a French philosopher and states how a narrative may not always have one genre but can have multiple genres. Therefore in a story it will never follow one certain genre but allows the story to incorporate multiple.

Claude Levi-Strauss is a French structuralist who introduced a concept called ‘bricolage.’ In which he believes that a text can be similar and had used other elements of different texts. The construction of other texts is set out to four sections;

• Addition
• Deletion
• Substitution
• Transposition

Gerard Genette is a French structuralist who worked in the 1990s developing a term called transtextuality as well as advancing it into 5 different sub group;

• Intertextuality- which reference how sometimes something can be used as quotation or has been plagiarised.
• Architextuality- Is when the genre is released I the title of the narrative either to confirm the genre or to indirectly mention it.
• Metatextuality is when a ext or reference is made clear however it could also be referenced unclearly.
• Hypotextuality is when a source of text is used as a source for another text.