Genre Theory: Rick Altman

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Rick Altman

"Genres are usually defined in terms of either signs (semantic) or certain plots and themes (syntactic)"

Semantic - What you can physically see, in a media text that give it meaning and links to a specific genre

Syntactic - What the meaning behind certain signs is

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Thanks! It really helped understanding alot of things unclear in my mind, :)

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