Film genre reader / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

Part one : Theory -- Genre / Andrew Tudor -- The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe -- A semantic/synthetic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- Genre films and the status quo / Judith Hess Wright -- Social implications in the Hollywood genres / Jean-Loup Bourget -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- "Cinema/ideology/criticism" revisited : the progressive genre / Barbara Klinger -- The structural influence : new directions in film genre study / Thomas Schatz -- Genre film : a classical experience / Thomas Sobchack -- Experience and meaning in genre films / Barry Keith Grant -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard De Cordova -- Part two : Selected genre criticism -- The western (genre and movies) / Douglas Pye -- Apes and essences : some sources of significance in the American gangster film / Edward Mitchell -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. Cawelti -- Shoot-out at the genre corral : problems in the "evolution" of the western / Tag Gallagher -- The bug in the rug : notes on the disater genre / Maurice Yacowar -- Children of the light / Bruce F. Kawin -- Monsters from the id / Margaret Tarratt -- Tales of sound and fury : observation on the family melodrama / Thomas Elsaesser -- Romantic comedy today : semi-tough or impossible? / Brian Henderson -- The self-reflexive musical and the myth of entertainment / Jane Feuer -- Footnote to fact : the docudrama / Seth Feldman -- The body snatchers : genre and Canadian cinema / Jim Leach.