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9780791445136

Film Genre 2000 : New Critical Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791445136

  • ISBN10:

    0791445135

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Author Biography

Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chairperson of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Introduction: The New Genre Cinema
1(12)
Wheeler Winston Dixon
New Wave Black Cinema in the 1990s
13(16)
Mark A. Reid
So Much is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptations in the 1990s
29(16)
John C. Tibbetts
Of Tunes and Toons: The Movie Musical in the 1990s
45(18)
Marc Miller
Political Film in the Nineties
63(14)
Stephen Prince
The Martial Arts Film in the 1990s
77(34)
David Desser
Same as It Ever Was: Innovation and Exhaustion in the Horror and Science Fiction Films of the 1990s
111(14)
David Sanjek
``Fighting and Violence and Everything, That's Always Cool'': Teen Films in the 1990s
125(18)
Wheeler Winston Dixon
The Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor: Crime Films during the 1990s
143(18)
Ron Wilson
Action Films: The Serious, the Ironic, the Postmodern
161(16)
James M. Welsh
Children's Films in the 1990s
177(16)
Heather Addison
Noir in the Red and the Nineties in the Black
193(18)
Tom Conley
Fade-Out in the West: The Western's Last Stand?
211(16)
Chuck Berg
Hanging on a Star: The Resurrection of the Romance Film in the 1990s
227(18)
Catherine L. Preston
Notes on Contributors 245(2)
Index 247

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