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a promise to the audience about what kind of lie they're about to enjoy.
means a category of art defined by shared conventions, tropes, and expectations that tell you how to feel before anything happens.
from from french genre meaning kind or type, itself from latin genus, the same root that gives us gender and generate — all about sorting things into families.
marketing toolgenres were invented partly to help booksellers shelve things.
blend everythinggenre-bending only works because genres set firm rules first.
oldest splitaristotle divided poetry into tragedy and comedy 2400 years ago.
for instance
film noir — 1940s hollywood crime style named by french critics after the fact.
young adult fiction — publishing category invented in the 1960s, now outsells adult fiction to adults.
k-pop — a genre that is also an industry, a fandom, and a nation's export strategy.