Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 248 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781444301267
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1282034448
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9781444301274
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1444301268
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1444301276
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9781444301267
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9781444301274
Uniform Title:
Genres du cinéma. 〈engl.〉
Content:
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 c
Content:
1. In the genre jungle : Cinematic genre: an empirical category ; Every use has its own typology ; An impossible typology? -- 2. Looking for the rules of genre : Looking for genre's formal rules ; Genre: an intertextual phenomenon ; In search of the structures of genre ; Semantic-syntactic definitions of genre -- 3. What Is the purpose of genres? : A production tool ; The social functions of genre ; The communicative function of genre -- 4. The generic identities of a film : The relations between film and genre ; The uses of generic identity ; The mixing of genres: pluri-generic attributes -- 5. How should one think about the history of a genre? : To put an end to the theory of generic evolution ; The birth of a cinematic genre ; Hybridization and mutation of genres -- 6. Genres in context : Cultural identity and the circulation of genres ; Generic regimes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index -- Includes filmography
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Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405156509
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405156516
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405156503
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405156511
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405156509
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405156516
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Moine, Raphaëlle Cinema genre Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub, 2008
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Film
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Gattung
DOI:
10.1002/9781444301267
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