Film genre reader IV / edited by Barry Keith Grant.
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- Film genre reader 4
- Film genre reader four
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Acknowledgments; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Introduction; Part One: Theory; 1. Genre (Andrew Tudor); 2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema (Edward Buscombe); 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre (Rick altman); 4. Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History (Leger Grindon); 5. Genre Films and the Status Quo (Judith Hess Wright; 6. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres(Jean-Loup Bourget); 7. Ideology, Genre, Auteur (Robin Wood); 8. "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre (Barbara Klinger).
9. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study (Thomas Schatz)10. Genre Film: A Classical Experience (Thomas Sobchack); 11. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films (Barry Keith Grant); 12. Genre and Performance: An Overview (Richard de Cordova); 13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess (Linda Williams); 14. Questions of Genre (Steve Neale); 15. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History (Janet Staiger); 16. Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other (Celestino Deleyto); Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism.
17. The Western (Genre and Movies) (Douglas Pye)18. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film (Edward Mitchell); 19. Notes on Film Noir (Paul Schrader); 20. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films (John G. Cawelti); 21. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western (Tag Gallagher); 22. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre (Maurice Yacowar); 23. "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic (Vivian Sobchack); 24. Children of the Light (Bruce F. Kawin).
25. Monsters from the Id (Margaret Tarratt)26. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery (Charles Ramírez Berg); 27. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama (Thomas Elsaesser); 28. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage (David R. Shumway); 29. Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film (Chris Straayer); 30. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films (Susan Jeffords); 31. The Family in Action (Yvonne Tasker).
32. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment (Jane Feuer)33. The Black Gangster Film (Mark A. Reid); 34. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth (Timothy Shary); 35. Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film (Andrew Higson); 36. Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism (David Desser); Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.
English.