Author : Stephen Neale
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Film genres
ISBN : 0415026067
Steve Neale here discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western.
Author : Thomas Schatz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1981-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.
Author : Barry Langford
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.
Author : Steve Neale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838715894
This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X.
Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231850069
This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an accessible way and includes sections on the principles of studying and understanding "the idea of genre"; genre and popular culture; the narrative and stylistic conventions of specific genres; the relations of genres to culture and history, race, gender, sexuality, class and national identity; and the complex relations between genre and authorship. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Little Big Man, Blue Steel, and Posse.
Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674739062
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.
Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292745745
From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
Author : Steve Neale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838715908
This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X.
Author : Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135213232
Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Author : Jane Feuer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253207685
... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.
