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British Film Institute, BFI Publishing
Language
English
Pages
322

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Motion pictures, History, Film genres, Motion pictures, plots, themes, etc., Motion pictures, history

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Genre and contemporary Hollywood
2002, British Film Institute, BFI Publishing
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Cover of: GENRE AND CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD; ED. BY STEVE NEALE.
GENRE AND CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD; ED. BY STEVE NEALE.
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Table of Contents

Contents.
1. Introduction. Steve Neale Page 1 |
Section One: Genre: Tradition and Innovation.
2. Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster. Sheldon Hall Page 11 |
3. Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s. Steve Neale Page 27 |
4. The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose. J. P Telotte Page 48 |
5. Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood. Michael Hammond Page 62 |
6. From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Woman's Film. Karen Hollinger Page 77 |
7. Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century. Carolyn Anderson and John Lupo Page 91 |
8. From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society. Andrew Tudor Page 105 |
9. The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978-99. William Paul Page 117 |
10. Conforming Passions?: Contemporary Romantic Comedy. Frank Krutnik Page 130 |
11. Pleasing the Million: Shakespearean Cinema of the 1990s. Roberta E. Pearson Page 148 |
Section Two: Genre: New Cycles and Trends.
12. Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalisation, 1990-99. Tino Balio Page 165 |
13. 'The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made': Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema since the 1960s. Peter Kramer Page 185 |
14. Movie Ratings as Genre: The Incontestable R. Kevin S. Sandler Page |
15. Cinema and the Premises of Youth: 'Teen Films' and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s. James Hay and Stephen Bailey Page |
16. Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle. S. Craig Watkins Page |
17. 'Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-noir. Peter Stanfield Page |
18. Grisham Adaptations and the Legal Thriller. Keith Bartlett Page |
19. Film Parody and the Resuscitation of Genre. Dan Harries Page |
20. 'Gone with the Wind Plus Fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Thomas Austin Page |
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/0973
Library of Congress
PN1993.5.U6 G46 2002, PN1993.5.U6, PN1993.5.U6 G357 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 322 p.
Number of pages
322

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3761236M
Internet Archive
genrecontemporar00stev
ISBN 10
0851708862, 0851708870
LCCN
2003464610
OCLC/WorldCat
51527607
Library Thing
1377497
Goodreads
4946704
437522

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