Film Genre ReaderBarry Keith Grant University of Texas Press, 1986 - 425 pages Chiefly reprints of articles originally published 1970-1984. |
Contents
The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema | 11 |
A SemanticSyntactic Approach to Film Genre | 26 |
Genre Films and the Status Quo JUDITH HEss wright | 41 |
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