Think about Genres - old and new

Genres - a working definition

•    A Genre, is a relatively stable, expectable form of communication
•    Genres are addressed to particular communities and fit into particular activities in the lives of that community's members.

•    "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth.
Da earth waz barren, wit no 4m of life;
it waz unda a roaring ocean cuvred wit dRkness"
[SMS Bible]

•    ".. most films that you see are photographs of people talking;
they're not pure cinema by any means."   
[Alfred Hitchcock]