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Author : Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791445143
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Film Genre 2000 written by Wheeler W. Dixon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791492958
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Film Genre 2000 written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 100 feature films in critical depth and detail, this reader provides an excellent introduction to American genre filmmaking since 1990. These previously unpublished essays by prominent film scholars each address a different film genre—from science fiction to romance to '90s noir—as well as the ways in which genre filmmaking as a whole has been changed by the new technologies and market forces that are shaping the future of cinema. One of the peculiar aspects of recent American genre filmmaking is its apparent facelessness, its desire to subsume itself into the larger framework of genre cinema, and not to identify each film as a unique exemplar. What this book argues, among other things, is that the implicit message in contemporary genre films is rarely that which is signified by a film's external or even internal narrative structure. What drives the thematic and structural concerns of recent genre cinema is the recovery of initial investment, made all the more pressing by the fact that each film released theatrically now represents an investment of many millions of dollars. For better or worse, American genre cinema dominates the globe. The Hollywood genre film has become one of America's most prolific and profitable social exports. These contemporary genre films all seek to further the values of their nation of origin as they journey through the world on film, videotape, DVDs, and television; it is the pervasive influence, and numerous subjects, of these films that are analyzed here. Contributors include Heather Addison, Chuck Berg, Ton Conley, David M. Desser, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Marc Miller, Catherine Preston, Stephen Prince, David Sanjek, Mark A. Reid, John Tibbets, Jim Welsh, and Ron Wilson.
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 : Jessica M. Maerz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893382
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare Films written by Jessica M. Maerz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films, Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2007) both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes. The generic appeal in Branagh’s films is one that grows progressively, becoming incrementally more critical to his Shakespearean adaptations as Branagh’s career progresses. Thus, his debut film, Henry V, is the least classically generic of all his films, relying primarily on intertextual and generic references to more contemporary styles, like the action genre and the Vietnam War film. Much Ado About Nothing represents a transitional moment in Branagh’s generic development; while the film closely accords to the norms of the screwball comedy, this generic correspondence derives primarily from the Shakespearean text. With Hamlet, Branagh begins to experiment with genre as a conceptual conceit: although the film owes much to classical domestic melodrama, particularly in Hamlet’s relationships with Gertrude and Ophelia, Branagh frames his domestic story with devices drawn from the classical Hollywood historical epic. Branagh’s spectacular failure Love’s Labour’s Lost demonstrates a unique subordination of the logic and authority of the Shakespearean source text to the demands of the classical musical form. Finally, Branagh’s most recent film, As You Like It, reveals a new approach towards working with filmed Shakespeare, while simultaneously “re-working” the generic structures and practices that characterize his earlier, more successful films.
Author : Brian McIlroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135985057
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Genre and Cinema written by Brian McIlroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema.
Author : Kelly McWilliam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042988981X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Australian Genre Film written by Kelly McWilliam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology.
Author : Steve Neale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715908
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Genre and Contemporary Hollywood written by Steve Neale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X.
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 : Steve Neale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134973454
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Genre and Hollywood written by Steve Neale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema. Neale takes issue with much genre criticism and genre theory, which has provided only a partial and misleading account of Hollywood's output. He calls for broader and more flexible conceptions of genre and genres, for more attention to be paid to the discourses and practices of Hollywood itself, for the nature and range of Hollywood's films to be looked at in more detail, and for any assessment of the social and cultural significance of Hollywood's genres to take account of industrial factors. In detailed, revisionist accounts of two major genres - film noir and melodrama - Neale argues that genre remains an important and productive means of thinking about both New and old Hollywood, its history, its audiences and its films.
Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364000
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Horror Genre written by Paul Wells and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wells explores how it has reflected and commented upon particular historical periods, and asks how it may respond to the new millennium by citing recent innovations in the genre's development, such as the "urban myth" narrative underpinning Candyman and The Blair Witch Project. Over 300 films are treated, all of which are featured in the filmography.
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813550394
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book A History of Horror written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.
Author : Ivo Ritzer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030698661
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Media and Genre written by Ivo Ritzer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects and analyzes the relationship between media and genre, focusing on both aesthetics and discursive meaning. It considers genres as having a decisive impact on media cultures, either in film, on TV, in computer games, comics or radio, on the level of production as well as reception. The book discusses the role of genres in media and cultural theory as a configuration of media artifacts that share specific aesthetic characteristics. It also reflects genre as a concept of categorization of media artifacts with which the latter can be analyzed under terms depending on a specific historical situation or cultural context. A special focus is placed on trans-media perspectives. Even as genres develop their own traditions within one medium, they reach beyond a media-specific horizon, necessitating a double perspective that considers the distinct recourse to genre within a medium as well as the trans-media circulation and adaption of genres.
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 : 1317695682
Total Pages : 341 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 341 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 : Frances Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474413110
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie written by Frances Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations.
Author : Gina Marchetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134179170
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema written by Gina Marchetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving fresh and fascinating insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this exciting book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm.
Author : John Sanders
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9781903663905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)
Download or read book The Film Genre Book written by John Sanders and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to film history, The Film Genre Book allows the reader to create their own narrative of film through history by focusing on seven genres, highlighting a key film from each genre over a ninety-year period--sixty-three films discussed in detail. The reader can trace the developments in a particular genre over time or compare films in a particular decade from the different genres. Each case-study considers issues of historical context, representation and the close textual analysis of significant scenes. Analysing films as diverse as Bambi and Pan's Labyrinth, the book immerses its reader into the full range of film experience. Its breadth of study, and the way in which it bridges the gap between commercial film guides and academic studies, makes it invaluable to teacher, student, and cineaste alike.
