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This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.
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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
- Contents
- Preface
- About this Book
- 1 Who Needs Genres?
- 2 Before Genre: Melodrama
- Part 1: Classical Paradigms
- Part 2: Transitional Fantasies
- Part 3: Post-Classical Genres
- Bibliography
- Index