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Author : Barry Langford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Film Genre written by Barry Langford and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.
Author : Raphaëlle Moine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444301276
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Cinema Genre written by Raphaëlle Moine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre – or 'type' – is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production values and costs. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine’s book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.
Author : Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007079
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Process Genre written by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.
Author : John Reich
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781942341475
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Exploring Movie Construction and Production written by John Reich and published by Open SUNY Textbooks. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students¿ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.
Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393930191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Film Genres written by Lester D. Friedman and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an introduction that helps students see thirteen film genres in a new light---to help them identify the themes, iconography, and distinctive stylistic traits of each genre.
Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118712927
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book World Cinema through Global Genres written by William V. Costanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses
Author : Silvia Dibeltulo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319901346
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema written by Silvia Dibeltulo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content—the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis—is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other. In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.
Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850069
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Film Genre written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an accessible way and includes sections on the principles of studying and understanding "the idea of genre"; genre and popular culture; the narrative and stylistic conventions of specific genres; the relations of genres to culture and history, race, gender, sexuality, class and national identity; and the complex relations between genre and authorship. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Little Big Man, Blue Steel, and Posse.
Author : Troy Bordun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319658948
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema written by Troy Bordun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined ‘extreme cinema’. In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films’ forms and narratives. The book thus adds to the present literature on extreme cinema and film theory, yet sets itself apart by fully deploying genre theory alongside the methodological and stylistic approaches of Stanley Cavell, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks, and Eugenie Brinkema.
Author : Lindsey Decker
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837005
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema written by Lindsey Decker and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity – combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres – as a way to think about films through a global and local framework. Taking the British horror resurgence of the 2000s as case study, genre studies are here combined with close formal analysis to argue that embracing transnational genre hybridity enabled the boom; starting in 2002, the resurgence saw British horror film production outpace the golden age of British horror. Yet, resurgence films like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead had to reckon with horror’s vilified status in the UK, a continuation of attitudes perpetuated by middle-brow film critics who coded horror as dangerous and Americanised. Moving beyond British cinema studies’ focus on the national, this book also presents a fresh take on long-standing issues in British cinema, including genre and film culture.
Author : Brian McIlroy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415770890
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Genre and Cinema written by Brian McIlroy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Christine Gledhill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093666
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas written by Christine Gledhill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection of gender and genre in not only Hollywood films but also in independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Working in the area of postcolonial cinema, contributors raise issues dealing with indigenous and global cinemas and argue that contemporary genres have shifted considerably as both notions of gender and forms of genre have changed. The volume addresses topics such as the history of feminist approaches to the study of genre in film, issues of female agency in postmodernity, changes taking place in supposedly male-dominated genres, concepts of genre and its use of gender in global cinema, and the relationship between gender and sexuality in film. Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.
Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292745745
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Film Genre Reader IV written by Barry Keith Grant and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
Author : Steffen Hantke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604734546
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)
Download or read book American Horror Film written by Steffen Hantke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Individual essays profile the work of up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone's muchmaligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President George W. Bush's administration. Other essays look at the economic, social, and formal aspects of the genre; the globalization of the U.S. film industry; the alleged escalation of cinematic violence; and the massive commercial popularity of the remake. Some essays examine specific subgenres-from the teenage horror flick to the serial killer film and the spiritual horror film-as well as the continuing relevance of classic directors such as George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, John Landis, and Stuart Gordon. Essays deliberate on the marketing of nostalgia and its concomitant aesthetic, and the curiously schizophrenic perspective of fans who happen to be scholars as well. Taken together, the contributors to this collection make a compelling case that American horror cinema is as vital, creative, and thought-provoking as it ever was.
Author : Noel Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851111
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Children's Film written by Noel Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a thorough consideration of how the genre may be defined, this volume goes on to explore how children's cinema has developed across its broad historical and geographic span, with particular reference to films from the United States, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia, India, and China. Analyzing changes and continuities in how children's film has been conceived, it argues for a fundamental distinction between commercial productions intended primarily to entertain, and non-commercial films made under pedagogical principles, and produced for purposes of moral and behavioral instruction. In elaborating these different forms, this book outlines a history of children's cinema from the early days of commercial cinema to the present, explores key critical issues, and provides case studies of major children's films from around the world.
Author : Jule Selbo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317695674
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Film Genre for the Screenwriter written by Jule Selbo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo’s popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, how and why these genres are received and appreciated by film-going audiences, and how the student and professional screenwriter alike can use the knowledge of film genre components in the ideation and execution of a screenplay. Explaining the defining elements, characteristics and tropes of genres from romantic comedy to slasher horror, and using examples from classic films like Casablanca alongside recent blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter, Selbo offers a compelling and readable analysis of film genre in its written form. The book also offers case studies, talking points and exercises to make its content approachable and applicable to readers and writers across the creative field.
Author : Julie F. Codell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405132329
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema written by Julie F. Codell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion. A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each
