Film Genre Reader IV

Published by University of Texas Press 2012

Film Genre Reader IV

Edited by: Barry Keith Grant

https://doi.org/10.7560/742055

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About this book

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 / Editor information

Barry Keith Grant is Professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface to the Fourth Edition Barry Keith Grant Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Part One: Theory
1. Genre Andrew Tudor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema Edward Buscombe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre Rick Altman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
4. Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History leger grindon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
5. Genre Films and the Status Quo Judith Hess Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
6. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres Jean-Loup Bourget Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
7. Ideology, Genre, Auteur Robin Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
8. “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism” Revisited: The Progressive Genre Barbara Klinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
9. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study Thomas Schatz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
10. Genre Film: A Classical Experience Thomas Sobchack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
11. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films Barry Keith Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
12. Genre and Performance: An Overview Richard De Cordova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess Linda Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
14. Questions of Genre Steve Neale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
15. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History Janet Staiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
16. Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other Celestino Deleyto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism
17. The Western (Genre and Movies) Douglas Pye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
18. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film Edward Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
19. Notes on Film Noir Paul Schrader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
20. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films John G. Cawelti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
21. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the “Evolution” of the Western Tag Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
22. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre Maurice Yacowar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
23. “Surge and Splendor”: A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic Vivian Sobchack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
24. Children of the Light Bruce F. Kawin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
25. Monsters from the Id Margaret Tarratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
26. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction’s Alien “Other” as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery Charles Ramírez Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
27. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama Thomas Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
28. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage David R. Shumway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
29. Redressing the “Natural”: The Temporary Transvestite Film Chris Straayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	484
30. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films Susan Jeffords Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	510
31. The Family in Action Yvonne Tasker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	524
32. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment Jane Feuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
33. The Black Gangster Film Mark A. Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	558
34. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth Timothy Shary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	576
35. Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film Andrew Higson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	602
36. Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism David Desser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	628
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	743

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 784

eBook

Published: December 15, 2012
ISBN: 9780292742079