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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory | |
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| Genre | |
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| The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema | |
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| A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre | |
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| Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History | |
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| Genre Films and the Status Quo | |
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| Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres | |
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| Ideology, Genre, Auteur | |
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| "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre | |
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| The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study | |
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| Genre Film: A Classical Experience | |
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| Experience and Meaning in Genre Films | |
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| Genre and Performance: An Overview | |
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| Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess | |
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| Questions of Genre | |
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| Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History | |
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| Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other | |
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| Selected Genre Criticism | |
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| The Western (Genre and Movies) | |
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| Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film | |
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| Notes on Film Noir | |
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| Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films | |
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| Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western | |
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| The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre | |
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| "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic | |
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| Children of the Light | |
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| Monsters from the Id | |
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| Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery | |
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| Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama | |
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| Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage | |
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| Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film | |
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| Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films | |
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| The Family in Action | |
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| The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment | |
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| The Black Gangster Film | |
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| Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth | |
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| Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film | |
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| Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Index | |