Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

by Neale, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780851708874
• ISBN10: 0851708870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-22
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

A new text which looks at contemporary Hollywood film-making from the perspective of genre.

Author Biography

Steve Neale is a world-renowned authority on film genre and is Professor of Film Studies Sheffield Hallam University and is the author of Genre and Hollywood (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Routledge, 1998).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Steve Neale
Section One: Genre: Tradition and Innovation
Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster	11	(16)
Sheldon Hall
Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s	27	(21)
Steve Neale
The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose	48	(14)
J. P. Telotte
Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood	62	(15)
Michael Hammond
From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Woman's Film	77	(14)
Karen Hollinger
Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century	91	(14)
Carolyn Anderson
John Lupo
From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society	105	(12)
Andrew Tudor
The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978--99	117	(13)
William Paul
Conforming Passions?: Contemporary Romantic Comedy	130	(18)
Frank Krutnik
Pleasing the Million: Shakespearean Cinema of the 1990s	148	(17)
Roberta E. Pearson
Section Two: Genre: New Cycles and Trends
Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalisation, 1990--99	165	(20)
Tino Balio
`The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made': Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema since the 1960s	185	(16)
Peter Kramer
Movie Ratings as Genre: The Incontestable R	201	(17)
Kevin S. Sandler
Cinema and the Premises of Youth: `Teen Films' and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s	218	(18)
James Hay
Stephen Bailey
Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle	236	(15)
S. Craig Watkins
`Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-noir	251	(18)
Peter Stanfield
Grisham Adaptations and the Legal Thriller	269	(12)
Keith Bartlett
Film Parody and the Resuscitation of Genre	281	(13)
Dan Harries
`Gone with the Wind Plus Fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula	294	(15)
Thomas Austin
Index	309