Film Genre From Iconography To Ideology

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850069
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Genre written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an accessible way and includes sections on the principles of studying and understanding "the idea of genre"; genre and popular culture; the narrative and stylistic conventions of specific genres; the relations of genres to culture and history, race, gender, sexuality, class and national identity; and the complex relations between genre and authorship. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Little Big Man, Blue Steel, and Posse.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764793
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Genre written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a concise analysis of film genre, this text introduces the topic in an accessible manner, covering theory and sample analyses of genre films such as the western, science fiction and the musical, through to horror, comedy and the thriller.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292745745
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Genre Reader IV written by Barry Keith Grant and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814334577
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Doubt written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers representations of masculine identity and sexuality in popular film across the work of several American directors and genres.

Author : Michele Aaron
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748677763
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Moving Image written by Michele Aaron and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring gender, race, nation and narration, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives and specific socio-cultural identities in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated to the popular, to the pol

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503385
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Comedy written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182539
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Film Musical written by Barry Keith Grant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music. Offers a depth of scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars Leads a crucial analysis of the cultural context of musicals, particularly the influence of popular music on the genre Delves into critical issues behind these films such as race, gender, ideology, and authorship Features close readings of canonical and neglected film musicals from the 1930s to the present including: Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, West Side Story, and Across the Universe

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715797
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film/Genre written by Rick Altman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film/Genre revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played and recognises that the term 'genre' has different meanings for different groups, basing his new genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discussing a huge range of films from The Great Train Robbery to Star Wars and from The Jazz Singer to The Player.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405153342
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auteurs and Authorship written by Barry Keith Grant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces Includes numerous student features, such as a general editor’s introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed features Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi

Author : Nils Bothmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658240784
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action, Detection and Shane Black written by Nils Bothmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nils Bothmann applies antiessentialist genre theory to study the fusion of the action and the detection genre in the hybrid genre of detAction, focusing on the work of screenwriter and director Shane Black. After providing antiessentialist definitions of all three genres, the author undertakes close readings of Black’s work in order to analyze depictions of race and gender as well as the role of intermediality and genre hybridity in detAction.​