Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

Genre / Andrew Tudor -- The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe -- A semantic/syntactic 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 -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Questions of genre / Steve Neale -- 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 disaster genre / Maurice Yacowar -- "Surge and splendor" : a phenomenology of the Hollywood historical epic / Vivian Sobchack -- Children of the light / Bruce F. Kawin -- Monsters from the id / Margaret Tarratt -- Tales of sound and fury : observations on the family melodrama / Thomas Elsaesser -- Screwball comedies : constructing romance, mystifying marriage / David R. Shumway -- Redressing the "natural" : the temporary transvestite film / Chris Straayer -- Friendly civilians : images of women and the feminization of the audience in Vietnam War films / Susan Jeffords -- The self-reflexive musical and the myth of entertainment / Jane Feuer -- The black gangster film / Mark A. Reid -- North of Pittsburgh : genre and national cinema from a Canadian perspective / Jim Leach