Within the conventions of the genre, he corrals deft characterisation, stripped-down language, and old-fashioned narrative, but mostly these are morality tales with scant humour, less concerned with head honchos than their deputies, guides, Apaches, and wives.
From the debut novel, The Memory Game, Nicci French has shown a strong grasp of the requirements of the genre: the need to combine convincing characterisation with a plot that delivers the requisite number of thrills and twists.
In particular, he expanded the dramatic potential of characterisation, plot, language, and genre.
The referential films revel in nostalgia: for genre tropes and archetypes, design and characterisation, pop-culture and myth.
Science fiction and fantasy have traditionally been puritanical genres aimed at a male readership, and can be more restricted than non-genre literature by their conventions of characterisation and the effect that these conventions have on depictions of sexuality and gender.
As genres of popular literature, science fiction and fantasy often seem more constrained than non-genre literature by their conventions of characterisation and the effects that these conventions have on depictions of sexuality and gender.
Following Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 was purposely conceived and developed to be a different kind of Supermarionation series, placing the narrative emphasis less on action, advanced technology and visual effects and more on characterisation and plotlines subscribing more to the spy thriller genre than science fiction.
Bizet's early one-act opera Le docteur Miracle provides the first clear signs of his promise in this genre, its sparkling music including, according to Dean, "many happy touches of parody, scoring and comic characterisation".
The genre of computer game adaptations comes primed for low expectations, but even so this is poor: patched-together CGI-assisted action along with rudimentary and witless characterisation.
