Film Genre
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Film Genre

Hollywood and Beyond

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Film Genre

Hollywood and Beyond

About this book

Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across the field, dealing separately and in detail with not only classic genres - including the Western, the musical, the war film, the gangster film, and film noir - but also more recent trends such as body-horror, Holocaust film, and the action blockbuster. Throughout the book, genre is presented as a constantly evolving phenomenon. Writing in a sophisticated yet accessible style, Barry Langford shows how notions of genre help shape the ways that filmmakers, critics and audiences view films and how the often complex scholarly debates around genre reflect important differences in the ways cinema is understood in relation to its social and historical contexts. The book encourages students to interrogate and broaden received ideas about genre.Key Features*Key text suitable for both undergraduate and advanced students*Detailed close analyses of key films (including The Matrix, Saving Private Ryan and Singin' in the Rain)*Comprehensive bibliography and guide to further reading*Up-to-date and theoretically informed

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15
From
Son
of
Frankenstein
(1939).
Reproduced
courtesy
Universal/The
Kobal
Collection.
what
is
possible
or
plausible
in
our
lived
reality.
Regimes
of
verisimilitude
are
generically
specific,
and
each
bears
its
own
relation
to
reality
as
such.
Many
genres
include
‘unmarked’
verisimilitudes
–
like
the
laws
of
the
physical
universe
–
whose
observance
can
simply
be
taken
for
granted
and
establishes
the
continuity
of
the
generic
world
with
that
of
the
spectator.
On
the
other
hand,
the
suspension
of
those
laws
(teleportation,
travelling
faster
than
light
or
through
time)
may
form
a
basic
and
recognised
element
of
the
verisimili-

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. About this Book
  4. 1 Who Needs Genres?
  5. 2 Before Genre: Melodrama
  6. Part 1: Classical Paradigms
  7. Part 2: Transitional Fantasies
  8. Part 3: Post-Classical Genres
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index