Refiguring American film genres

University of California Press

1998

xiv, 326 p.

9780520207301

Reusable packaging: generic products and the recycling process / Rick Altman -- Melodrama revised / Linda Williams -- World War II and the Hollywood "war film" / Thomas Schatz -- Lounge time: postwar crises and the chronotope of film noir / Vivian Sobchack -- "Democracy and burnt cork": the end of blackface, the beginning of civil rights / Michael Rogin -- Genre anxiety and racial representation in 1970s cinema / George Lipsitz -- Monster roundup: reintegrating the horror genre / David J. Russell -- "God bless juries!" / Carol J. Clover -- The genre of nature: ceremonies of innocence / Leo Braudy.

A collection of essays by American scholars examining fresh territory in genre film criticism. The contributors offer ways to think about types of films and patterns in films in a historical context. Included are essays on melodrama, race, "film noir" and the industrial context of genre production.

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