Uptake Blog Post #3

 What did I Think Genre Meant? 

    Throughout my life I always thought genre was just the basic area that a movie, book, video game or music would fall under. For example, Call of Duty would fall under a first-person shooter, war, action genre. Music had its own genre like country, hip hop, gospel and rock. books would have genres of fiction, and non-fiction. Then movies would have the genre of romance, comedy, action, drama and horror. Genre to me was always like a profile in which a text would go along with. 

How Has my Definition of Genre Changed?

    After talking about genre for the past couple weeks I don't think that my definition of genre in the past has changed, but it has grown. Now I understand there are a lot more factors that play into a genre and what makes a text a genre. I've also learned how the audience ties a text into a genre. A genre is not just a profile that a text corresponds to a genre is also the type of text created. For example, different types of genres could be, a Tik Tok, a YouTube Video, a book, a movie and even a play. These aren't your traditional genres of horror or comedy, but they are still genres in how a text was created. Not only are these genres but when an audience views a text, they expect certain things from this genre. The use the things they expect to place it within a genre for example jump scares, blood and a mass murder makes a horror movie and a girl who falls for the forbidden boy next door is a soapy romance. These are things that play into how an audience reacts to a text and what genre it belongs to. 

What Genres do I interact with Every day?

    I interact with all kinds of genres every day. Like my video games, Netflix shows, listening to music and even how I do my homework every day. You see genre plays a role in my life in ways that I don't even understand. But I guess that's why I have you right? HECK! genre even plays a role in how people talk to each other. Like, if you're talking to a boss you don't want to be messing around like how you would talk to your friends. These are just minor ways that I interact with genre in my everyday life. 


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