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Notions of genre : writings on popular film before genre theory / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz.
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English
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First edition.
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Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2016.
©2016
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vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
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Summary note
"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" -- From the publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz
Part I. Comedy. Comedy's greatest era / James Agee
Silent film comedy / Siegfried Kracauer
Uncle Sam's funny bone / Allen Eyles
Whatever happened to Hollywood comedy? / Dwight Macdonald
The evolution of the chase in the silent screen comedy / Donald W. McCaffrey --From kops to robbers : transformation of archetypal figures in the American cinema of the 1920s and '30s / Carolyn and Harry Geduld
Part II. The Western. The psychological appeal of the Hollywood Western / Frederick Elkin
The Western, or the American film par excellence / André Bazin
The Olympian cowboy / Harry Schein --The changing cowboy : from dime novel to dollar film / George Bluestone
Sociological symbolism of the "adult Western" / Martin Nussbaum
Puritanism revisited : an analysis of the contemporary screen-image Western / Peter Homans
Part III. The fantastic. Supernaturalism in the movies / Parker Tyler
Reflections on horror movies / Robert Brustein
A brief, tragical history of the science fiction film / Richard Hodgens
The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag
Extrapolative cinema / Ivor A. Rogers
Even a man who is pure at heart : poetry and danger in the horror film / R.H.W. Dillard
Part IV. Crime and punishment. The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow
Evolution of the thriller / Claude Chabrol
Toward a definition of film noir / Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton
Paint it black : the family tree of the film noir / Raymond Durgnat
Introduction to the gangster film / John Baxter.
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ISBN
9781477303757 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1477303758 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781477311080 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1477311084 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 N845
LCCN
2016003757
OCLC
936687486
Other standard number
40026606390
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