Film Genre Reader III

by Grant, Barry Keith

• ISBN13: 9780292701854
• ISBN10: 0292701853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with nearly 20,000 copies in print. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This third edition adds new essays on teen films, the question of genre hybridity, and neo-noir and genre in the era of globalization, along with an updated bibliography. The volume includes over thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular film, including John G. Cawelti, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Steve Neale, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part One: Theory
1. Genre
ANDREW TUDOR	3	(9)
2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema
EDWARD BUSCOMBE	12	(15)
3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre
RICK ALTMAN	27	(15)
4. Genre Films and the Status Quo
JUDITH HESS WRIGHT	42	(9)
5. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres
JEAN-LOUP BOURGET	51	(9)
6. Ideology, Genre, Auteur
ROBIN WOOD	60	(15)
7. "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre
BARBARA KLINGER	75	(17)
8. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study
THOMAS SCHATZ	92	(11)
9. Genre Film: A Classical Experience
THOMAS SOBCHACK	103	(12)
10. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films
BARRY KEITH GRANT	115	(15)
11. Genre and Performance: An Overview
RICHARD DE CORDOVA	130	(11)
12. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess
LINDA WILLIAMS	141	(19)
13. Questions of Genre
STEVE NEALE	160	(25)
14. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History
JANET STAIGER	185	(18)
Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism
15. The Western (Genre and Movies)
DOUGLAS PYE	203	(16)
16. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film
EDWARD MITCHELL	219	(10)
17. Notes on Film Noir
PAUL SCHRADER	229	(14)
18. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films
JOHN G. CAWELTI	243	(19)
19. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western
TAG GALLAGHER	262	(15)
20. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre
MAURICE YACOWAR	277	(19)
21. "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic
VIVIAN SOBCHACK	296	(28)
22. Children of the Light
BRUCE F. KAWIN	324	(22)
23. Monsters from the Id
MARGARET TARRATT	346	(20)
24. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama
THOMAS ELSAESSER	366	(30)
25. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage
DAVID R. SHUMWAY	396	(21)
26. Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film
CHRIS STRAAYER	417	(26)
27. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films
SUSAN JEFFORDS	443	(14)
28. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment
JANE FEUER	457	(15)
29. The Black Gangster Film
MARK A. REID	472	(18)
30. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth
TIMOTHY SHARP	490	(26)
31. Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism
DAVID DESSER	516	(21)
Bibliography	537	(76)
Notes on Contributors	613	(6)
Index	619