Iconography are those particular signs we see during a film which we associate with a particular genre. For example when the film contains guns, cowboys and horses the audience automatically know that it is a western.
A hybrid is when two genres converge together to make an different genre. For example a thriller could converge with a horror to form a horror thriller.
A genre is a vague category with no fixed boundaries; they are decided mainly by the conventions used. They can have sub genres by stepping out of these stereotypical conventions. People learn to expect certain things within a particular genre.
For example, with a thriller film, we’d expect to see things like detectives / police, a city setting which makes it looks more realistic, usually set in modern day and a twist which throws you. We’d expect to be on the edge of our seats, and these are all conventions of a thriller genre.
Leila Robertson
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