genre theorists

1. Genre
What is Genre?
What genre theorists can you find?
What Genre theories link to the horror Genre?

2. Genre is the term for any category of literature or
other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music,
whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on
some set of stylistic criteria.
Genre does not rely simply on what's in a media text
but also on the way it is put together (constructed).
This can be important, for example, when
distinguishing between a horror movie and a thriller,
which can deal with similar subject matter, and look
the same — lots of action set at night — but belong
to separate genres (a horror film takes the audience
into a supernatural place, where a thriller sticks to
reality).