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1. How has the academic reception of popular genres changes over time?

2. What might the value be of studying them?

The popular genre is not be defined precisely as literature, and the popular genre is not authorised the literary canon. A popular genre is a new development of novel, where it can be visual or audio elements through various material such as anime, manga. 

Popular genres such as comics, science fiction and fantasy novels are often not considered as “serious” literature (Mason, 2017). These characters in the popular genre have been seen and developed in many ways. Through time, the target audience has changed to become younger and younger over the years, in addition, changes in society and issues that will influence representation and trends in the media, such as emigration and immigration, violence, conflict and disease. The similarities and differences between genres have effected through the author to experience the contrary evidence of two different concepts draw from interviews and the autoethnographic in Disney genres such as Tangle and fantasy. Therefore, for two different types of audiences are children and adult to reconnect their relationship with Disney films, also with books. (Mason, 2017).

Popular genre popular fiction was not explored as much as it should be until later on. Film and television have developed its approach that reflects the unique social, cultural, political, and industrial dimension of each medium; therefore, a popular genre such as fiction should maintain its own critical space. The popular genre has been defined in several ways over the last half-century (Schneider-Mayerson, 2010). The pop genre also adapted it in a new media; it is not only in real life but in the imaginary world such as animation, comic strips, sci-fi etc. with these themes of magic, robots or heroes. These elements are worth to explore through an academic lens. 

In a popular genre are creating characters development and imaginary worlds not in classical literature. Nowadays, people learn and accept the way of popular genre gradually has been out there, and popular reception genre in a way that they learn in literature (Schneider-Mayerson, 2010). According to Berger (1992), he said that popular culture should not be told from what the target audience’s familiarity because the audience will have a hard time to understand and relate to it; it should provide a piece of prior knowledge in an impressive variety on the theme.

Studying popular genre values of exploring a range of different medium such as books, film, comics, animation, anime in different ways of stories has been told in new ideas. Also, they can know the difference between popular genre and literature, the gap between authentic or high literature and everyday literature which provide our modern life. In the end, it presents the issues that we have today in society through popular genre to show these topics in exciting ways. Nowadays, more and more universities introduce the student to this paper. Therefore, students can consume popular genre media, and they can critically and academically analyse. They can use an exciting technique to write their point of view to send messages or reflection on society through the popular genre.

Reference:

Berger, A. A. (1992). Popular culture genres: Theories and texts (Vol. 2). Sage.

Mason, J. R. (2017). Disney Film Genres and Adult Audiences: A Tale of Renegotiated Relationships (Doctoral dissertation, University of Leeds).

Schneider-Mayerson, M. (2010). Popular Fiction Studies: The Advantages of a New Field. Studies in Popular Culture, 33(1), 21-35. Retrieved August 15, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/23416317