Notions of Genre : Writings on Popular Film before Genre Theory

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Notions of Genre : Writings on Popular Film before Genre Theory

Grant, Barry Keith (EDT)/ Kurtz, Malisa (EDT)

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University of Texas Press（2016/11発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781477311080
DDC分類 791.436

Full Description

Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand their conventions and how they speak to, for, and about the culture that produces them. While this early writing on genre film was often unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and judgmental, it nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and valuable today.

Notions of Genre gathers the most important early writing on film genre and genre films published between 1945 and 1969. It includes articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, AndrÉ Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in academic disciplines such as history, sociology, and theater. Their writings address major issues in genre studies, including definition, representation, ideology, audiences, and industry practices, across genres ranging from comedy and westerns to horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and thrillers. The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre films, Notions of Genre will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural studies, and popular culture.

Acknowledgments
Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz)
Part I. Comedy

1. Comedy's Greatest Era (James Agee)
2. Silent Film Comedy (Siegfried Kracauer)
3. Uncle Sam's Funny Bone (Allen Eyles)
4. Whatever Happened to Hollywood Comedy? (Dwight Macdonald)
5. The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy (Donald W. McCaffrey)
6. From Kops to Robbers: Transformation of Archetypal Figures in the American Cinema of the 1920s and '30s (Carolyn and Harry Geduld)

Part II. The Western

7. The Psychological Appeal of the Hollywood Western (Frederick Elkin)
8. The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence (AndrÉ Bazin)
9. The Olympian Cowboy (Harry Schein)
10. The Changing Cowboy: From Dime Novel to Dollar Film (George Bluestone)
11. Sociological Symbolism of the "Adult Western" (Martin Nussbaum)
12. Puritanism Revisited: An Analysis of the Contemporary Screen-Image Western (Peter Homans)

Part III. The Fantastic

13. Supernaturalism in the Movies (Parker Tyler)
14. Reflections on Horror Movies (Robert Brustein)
15. A Brief, Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film (Richard Hodgens)
16. The Imagination of Disaster (Susan Sontag)
17. Extrapolative Cinema (Ivor A. Rogers)
18. Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film (R. H. W. Dillard)

Part IV. Crime and Punishment

19. The Gangster as Tragic Hero (Robert Warshow)
20. Evolution of the Thriller (Claude Chabrol)
21. Toward a Definition of Film Noir (Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton)
22. Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir (Raymond Durgnat)
23. Introduction to The Gangster Film (John Baxter)

Index