Film Genre Reader III

Name: Film Genre Reader III
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ISBN: 9780292701854

ISBN-10: 0292701853

ISBN-13: 9780292701854

Edition: 3rd 2003

Authors: Barry Keith Grant

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More than 30 essays by some of film's most distinguished critics are included in this volume, which presents the latest developments in genre study, including teen films, genre hybridity, neo-noir & genre in the age of globalization, & an up-to-date bibliography.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 12/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Alistair Fox holds a personal chair in the Department of English and is director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago.Barry Keith Grant is professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University.



Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction



Theory



Genre Andrew Tudor



The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema




A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre




Genre Films and the Status Quo Judith




Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres




Ideology, Genre, Auteur




Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre




The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study




Genre Film: A Classical Experience




Experience and Meaning in Genre Films




Genre and Performance: An Overview




Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess




Questions of Genre




Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History




Selected Genre Criticism



The Western (Genre and Movies) Douglas Pye



Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film




Notes on Film Noir




Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films




Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western




The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre




"Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic




Children of the Light




Monsters from the Id Margaret Tarratt



Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama




Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage




Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film




Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films




The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment




The Black Gangster Film




Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth




Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism



Bibliography


Notes on Contributors


Index