Rick Altman Genre Thoery

• He believes that genres usually defined in terms of media language and codes, landscapes, characters or even stars and certain ideologies and narratives.
• He was a theorist and critic and believed:
• a genre is a useful category, because it bridges multiple concerns.
• genres are defined by a film industry and recognised by a mass audience.
• genres have clear, stable identities and borders.
• I have thought about my genre in depth and have thought about my target audience and whether my story and plot would fit in my genres.I can relate this theorist to my found knowledge of teen and documentary film language.