Cinema Genre
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Cinema Genre

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Cinema Genre

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Genre – or 'type' – is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production values and costs.

Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine's book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
ISBN
9781444301274
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Translators’ Note
  2. Foreword Janet Staiger
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1 In the Genre Jungle
  5. Cinematic Genre: An Empirical Category
  6. Every Use Has Its Own Typology
  7. An Impossible Typology?
  8. Chapter 2 Looking for the Rules of Genre
  9. Looking for Genre’s Formal Rules
  10. Genre: An Intertextual Phenomenon
  11. In Search of the Structures of Genre
  12. Semantic-Syntactic Definitions of Genre
  13. Chapter 3 What is the Purpose of Genres?
  14. A Production Tool
  15. The Social Functions of Genre
  16. The Communicative Function of Genre
  17. Chapter 4 The Generic Identities of a Film
  18. The Relations Between Film and Genre
  19. The Uses of Generic Identity
  20. The Mixing of Genres: Pluri-generic Attributes
  21. Chapter 5 How To Conceptualize the History of a Genre?
  22. To Put an End to the Theory of Generic Evolution
  23. The Birth of a Cinematic Genre
  24. Hybridization and Mutation of Genres
  25. Chapter 6 Genres in Context
  26. Cultural Identity and the Circulation of Genres
  27. Generic Regimes
  28. Conclusion
  29. Select Bibliography
  30. Filmography