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

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...

Table of Contents

• 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