
Film Genre Reader IV
by Grant, Barry KeithBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Theory | |
Genre | p. 3 |
The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema | p. 12 |
A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre | p. 27 |
Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History | p. 42 |
Genre Films and the Status Quo | p. 60 |
Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres | p. 69 |
Ideology, Genre, Auteur | p. 78 |
"Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre | p. 93 |
The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study | p. 110 |
Genre Film: A Classical Experience | p. 121 |
Experience and Meaning in Genre Films | p. 133 |
Genre and Performance: An Overview | p. 148 |
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess | p. 159 |
Questions of Genre | p. 178 |
Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History | p. 203 |
Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other | p. 218 |
Selected Genre Criticism | |
The Western (Genre and Movies) | p. 239 |
Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film | p. 255 |
Notes on Film Noir | p. 265 |
Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films | p. 279 |
Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western | p. 298 |
The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre | p. 313 |
"Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic | p. 332 |
Children of the Light | p. 360 |
Monsters from the Id | p. 382 |
Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery | p. 402 |
Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama | p. 433 |
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage | p. 463 |
Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film | p. 484 |
Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films | p. 510 |
The Family in Action | p. 524 |
The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment | p. 543 |
The Black Gangster Film | p. 558 |
Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth | p. 576 |
Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film | p. 602 |
Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism | p. 628 |
Bibliography | p. 649 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 735 |
Index | p. 743 |
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