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| Author | : Steve Neale |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2005-06-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134973454 |
Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema. Neale takes issue with much genre criticism and genre theory, which has provided only a partial and misleading account of Hollywood's output. He calls for broader and more flexible conceptions of genre and genres, for more attention to be paid to the discourses and practices of Hollywood itself, for the nature and range of Hollywood's films to be looked at in more detail, and for any assessment of the social and cultural significance of Hollywood's genres to take account of industrial factors. In detailed, revisionist accounts of two major genres - film noir and melodrama - Neale argues that genre remains an important and productive means of thinking about both New and old Hollywood, its history, its audiences and its films.
| Author | : Stephen Neale |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Barry Langford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Thomas Schatz |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1981-02 |
| Genre | : 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 Keith Grant |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Barry Keith Grant |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 785 |
| Release | : 2012-12-01 |
| Genre | : 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 | : British Film Institute |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2008-01-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780851708874 |
A collection of essays that look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades pf the 20th century. The collection focuses on animated feature films, biopics, comedies, Shakespeare adaptations, and female-oriented dramas.
| Author | : Barry Keith Grant |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2012-04-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1405182539 |
This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music. Offers a depth of scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars Leads a crucial analysis of the cultural context of musicals, particularly the influence of popular music on the genre Delves into critical issues behind these films such as race, gender, ideology, and authorship Features close readings of canonical and neglected film musicals from the 1930s to the present including: Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, West Side Story, and Across the Universe
| Author | : Mary Harrod |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2021-05-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3030709949 |
Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.
| Author | : Stanley Cavell |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : 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.
