UID:
edocfu_9959232300502883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-97345-4
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1-280-13909-9
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0-203-98078-6
Series Statement:
Sightlines
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I GENRE; 1 DEFINITIONS OF GENRE; GENRE CRITICISM AND GENRE THEORY IN THE 1960's AND 1970's; ICONOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL QUESTIONS; LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS AND GENRE; GENRE AND THE GENRE FILM; NOTES; 2 DIMENSIONS OF GENRE; VERISIMILITUDE; INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF GENRE AND HOLLYWOOD; LABELS AND NAMES; THE EARLY WESTERN; NOTES; Part II GENRES; 3 MAJOR GENRES; ACTION-ADVENTURE; BIOPICS; COMEDY; CONTEMPORARY CRIME: DETECTIVE FILMS, GANGSTER FILMS AND SUSPENSE THRILLERS; Detective films; Gangster films
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Suspense thrillers EPICS AND SPECTACLES; HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION; Horror; Science fiction; Musicals; SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS; TEENPICS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; NOTES; 4 FILM NOIR; THE INITIAL PROPONENTS OF NOIR; THE DIMENSIONS OF THE NOIR CANON; NOIR'S SIGNIFICANCE; GENDER AND SEXUALITY; HARDBOILED FICTION; NARRATION AND NARRATIVE; VISUAL AND AURAL EXPRESSIONISM; FILM NOIR, NEO-NOIR AND GENRE; NOTES; 5 MELODRAMA AND THE WOMAN'S FILM; MELODRAMA AND FILM STUDIES; MELODRAMA, REALISM, AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY; MELODRAMA, GENDER, DOMESTICITY AND ROMANCE; THE WOMAN'S FILM
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MELODRAMA AND HOLLYWOOD'S GENRESNOTES; Part III HOLLYWOOD'S GENRES; 6 GENRE THEORY; AESTHETIC THEORIES; SOCIO-CULTURAL THEORIES; NOTES; 7 GENRE AND HOLLYWOOD; THE STUDIO ERA; THE POST-STUDIO ERA; ISSUES, CONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS; NOTES; APPENDIX: Chronological Index of 'Principal' Noirs from Borde and Chaumeton (1955); CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; COSTUME CRIME FILMS; GANGSTERS; DOCUMENTARY POLICE THRILLERS; SOCIAL TRENDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-02606-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-02605-9
Language:
English
