Film Genre Reader III, Volume 3University of Texas Press, 2003 M12 1 - 636 pages Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with nearly 20,000 copies in print. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This third edition adds new essays on teen films, the question of genre hybridity, and neo-noir and genre in the era of globalization, along with an updated bibliography. The volume includes over thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular film, including John G. Cawelti, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Steve Neale, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood. |
Contents
1 Genre by Andrew Tudor | 3 |
2 The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema by Edward Buscombe | 12 |
3 A SemanticSyntactic Approach to Film Genre by Rick Altman | 27 |
4 Genre Films and the Status Quo by Judith Hess Wright | 42 |
5 Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres by JeanLoup Bourget | 51 |
6 Ideology Genre Auteur by Robin Wood | 60 |
The Progressive Genre by Barbara Klinger | 75 |
New Directions in Film Genre Study by Thomas Schatz | 92 |
18 Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films by John G Cawelti | 243 |
Problems in the Evolution of the Western by Tag Gallagher | 262 |
Notes on the Disaster Genre by Maurice Yacowar | 277 |
A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic by Vivian Sobchack | 296 |
22 Children of the Light by Bruce F Kawin | 324 |
23 Monsters from the Id by Margaret Tarratt | 346 |
Observations on the Family Melodrama by Thomas Elsaesser | 366 |
Constructing Romance Mystifying Marriage by David R Shumway | 396 |
A Classical Experience by Thomas Sobchack | 103 |
10 Experience and Meaning in Genre Films by Barry Keith Grant | 115 |
An Overview by Richard de Cordova | 130 |
Gender Genre and Excess by Linda Williams | 141 |
13 Questions of Genre by Steve Neale | 160 |
The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History by Janet Staiger | 185 |
SELECTED GENRE CRITICISM | 201 |
15 The Western Genre and Movies by Douglas Pye | 203 |
Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film by Edward Mitchell | 219 |
17 Notes on Film Noir by Paul Schrader | 229 |
The Temporary Transvestite Film by Chris Straayer | 417 |
Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films by Susan Jeffords | 443 |
28 The SelfReflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment by Jane Feuer | 457 |
29 The Black Gangster Film by Mark A Reid | 472 |
The Cinematic Image of Youth by Timothy Shary | 490 |
Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism by David Desser | 516 |
Bibliography | 537 |
Notes on Contributors | 613 |
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