Film Genre Reader IV / / ed. by Barry Keith Grant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Altman, Rick,; Bourget, Jean-Loup,; Buscombe, Edward,; Cawelti, John G.,; Cordova, Richard De,; Deleyto, Celestino,; Desser, David,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Feuer, Jane,; Gallagher, Tag,; Grant, Barry Keith,; Hess Wright, Judith,; Higson, Andrew,; Jeffords, Susan,; Kawin, Bruce F.,; Klinger, Barbara,; Mitchell, Edward,; Neale, Steve,; Pye, Douglas,; Ramírez Berg, Charles,; Reid, Mark A.,; Schatz, Thomas,; Schrader, Paul,; Shary, Timothy,; Shumway, David R.,; Sobchack, Thomas,; Sobchack, Vivian,; Staiger, Janet,; Straayer, Chris,; Tarratt, Margaret,; Tasker, Yvonne,; Tudor, Andrew,; Williams, Linda,; Wood, Robin,; Yacowar, Maurice,; grindon, leger,
• HerausgeberIn: Grant, Barry Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (784 p.)

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 o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Introduction
• 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 (Genre and Movies)
• 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
• 36. Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index