Notions of Genre : : Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory / / ed. by Malisa Kurtz, Barry Keith Grant.

• MitwirkendeR: Agee, James,; Baxter, John,; Bazin, André,; Bluestone, George,; Borde, Raymond,; Brustein, Robert,; Chabrol, Claude,; Chaumeton, Etienne,; Dillard, R. H. W.,; Durgnat, Raymond,; Elkin, Frederick,; Eyles, Allen,; Geduld, Carolyn,; Geduld, Harry,; Grant, Barry Keith,; Hodgens, Richard,; Homans, Peter,; Kracauer, Siegfried,; Kurtz, Malisa,; Macdonald, Dwight,; McCaffrey, Donald W.,; Nussbaum, Martin,; Rogers, Ivor A.,; Schein, Harry,; Sontag, Susan,; Tyler, Parker,; Warshow, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Grant, Barry Keith,; Kurtz, Malisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. Comedy --; Chapter One. Comedy’s Greatest Era --; Chapter Two. Silent Film Comedy --; Chapter Three. Uncle Sam’s Funny Bone --; Chapter Four. Whatever Happened to Hollywood Comedy --; Chapter Five. The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy --; Chapter Six. From Kops to Robbers: Transformation of Archetypal Figures in the American Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s --; Part II. The Western --; Chapter Seven. The Psychological Appeal of the Hollywood Western --; Chapter Eight. The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence --; Chapter Nine. The Olympian Cowboy --; Chapter Ten. The Changing Cowboy: From Dime Novel to Dollar Film --; Chapter Eleven. Sociological Symbolism of the “Adult Western” --; Chapter Twelve. Puritanism Revisited: An Analysis of the Contemporary Screen-Image Western --; Part III. The Fantastic --; Chapter Thirteen. Supernaturalism in the Movies --; Chapter Fourteen. Reflections on Horror Movies --; Chapter Fifteen. A Brief, Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film --; Chapter Sixteen. The Imagination of Disaster --; Chapter Seventeen. Extrapolative Cinema --; Chapter Eighteen. Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film --; Part IV. Crime and Punishment --; Chapter Nineteen. The Gangster as Tragic Hero --; Chapter Twenty. Evolution of the Thriller --; Chapter Twenty-One. Toward a Definition of Film Noir --; Chapter Twenty-Two. Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir --; Chapter Twenty-Three. Introduction to The Gangster Film --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477311097
• DOI: 10.7560/303757
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Malisa Kurtz, Barry Keith Grant.

Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand their conventions and how they speak to, for, and about the culture that produces them. While this early writing on genre film was often unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and judgmental, it nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and valuable today. Notions of Genre gathers the most important early writing on film genre and genre films published between 1945 and 1969. It includes articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in academic disciplines such as history, sociology, and theater. Their writings address major issues in genre studies, including definition, representation, ideology, audiences, and industry practices, across genres ranging from comedy and westerns to horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and thrillers. The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre films, Notions of Genre will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural studies, and popular culture.