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Film genre reader IV / edited by Barry Keith Grant

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2012Edition: Firts editionDescription: xxii, 762 páginas : ilustraciones, 24 cmContent type:
  • texto
Media type:
  • sin mediación
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780292742055
Other title:
  • Film genre reader four
  • Film genre reader 4
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995 F556 2012
Contents:
Part One: Theory -- 1. Genre -- 2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema -- 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre -- 4. Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History -- 5. Genre Films and the Status Quo -- 6. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres -- 7. Ideology, Genre, Auteur -- 8. "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre -- 9. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study -- 10. Genre Film: A Classical Experience -- 11. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films -- 12. Genre and Performance: An Overview -- 13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess -- 14. Questions of Genre -- 15. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History -- 16. Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other --
Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism -- 17. The Western -- 18. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film -- 19. Notes on Film Noir -- 20. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films -- 21. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western -- 22. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre -- 23. "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic -- 24. Children of the Light -- 25. Monsters from the Id -- 26. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery -- 27. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama -- 28. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage -- 29. Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film -- 30. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films -- 31. The Family in Action -- 32. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment -- 33. The Black Gangster Film -- 34. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth -- 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.
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Libros Libros Mediateca Bibliográfica PN1995 F556 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12044
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Part One: Theory -- 1. Genre -- 2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema -- 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre -- 4. Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History -- 5. Genre Films and the Status Quo -- 6. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres -- 7. Ideology, Genre, Auteur -- 8. "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre -- 9. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study -- 10. Genre Film: A Classical Experience -- 11. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films -- 12. Genre and Performance: An Overview -- 13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess -- 14. Questions of Genre -- 15. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History -- 16. Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other --

Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism -- 17. The Western -- 18. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film -- 19. Notes on Film Noir -- 20. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films -- 21. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western -- 22. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre -- 23. "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic -- 24. Children of the Light -- 25. Monsters from the Id -- 26. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery -- 27. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama -- 28. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage -- 29. Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film -- 30. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films -- 31. The Family in Action -- 32. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment -- 33. The Black Gangster Film -- 34. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth -- 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.

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