... disciplines such as drama and science fiction. This categorization immediately undertakes the idea of meaning being constructed due to the fact that people decide to 'group' certain genre's together due to a created understanding of similarities. It is these similiarities which decide the relationships of, say for example sci-fi and horror, being grouped together often in many library and video shelves. A.G. Thwaites believes that "genre is not simply a catalogue device, but instead names the way in which texts can relate to each other" (Thwaites 1994: 22), thus implying that people may familiarise texts with other similar such texts in order to possibly gain a better understanding of the texts itself. This understanding is most likely not conceived through the process of discovery, but rather is constructed by the person in order to create a comfortable individualistic knowledge of the text. Similarly, Thwaites states that genre plays a role ...

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