Generic confluence as the art of ideological peddling: Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011)

British genres are more than an abstract system of formulas, conventions, and codes that are universally applicable. National identity, social history, and ideology play a central role in their formation. In genre theory, the concept of hybridity is mobilised very frequently, unlike that of confluence though the latter might prove more adequate to apprehend certain films. Hybridity is a concept that percolated from biology to postcolonial studies before being used in film studies in associati...