a text cannot be genreless and that every text participates in one or several genres
this means that the text will always have a genre, even if it has several like a postmodern film pastiche or hommage
an example of this would be scary movie as this is supposed to have no genre because it is a postmodern pastiche and it has references form almost every genre of films that are out, although it falls into the comedy side of the genre
this is what Derrida means as the film is aimed at being genreless, but it fits in to the comedy genre so the text of scary movie is comedy
another example would be the waiters in inglourios basterds
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