Film Genre Reader IIBarry Keith Grant University of Texas Press, 1995 - 581 pages |
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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