Genre and Hollywood

Author: Stephen Neale
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415026067
Category : Film genres
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
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.

Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System

Author: Thomas Schatz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
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.

Film Genre

Author: Barry Langford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.

Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

Author: Steve Neale
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838715894
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X.

Film Genre

Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850069
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
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.

Pursuits of Happiness

Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674739062
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.

Film Genre Reader IV

Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292745745
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 785

Book Description
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.

Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

Author: Steve Neale
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838715908
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Classical Hollywood Comedy

Author: Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135213232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Cinema Genre

Author: Raphaëlle Moine
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444301276
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Genre – or 'type' – is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production values and costs. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine’s book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.