Genre and Contemporary Hollywood,9780851708874

Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

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ISBN13: 9780851708874
ISBN10: 0851708870
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-22
Publisher(s): British Film Inst
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Summary

A new text which looks at contemporary Hollywood film-making from the perspective of genre.

Author Biography

Steve Neale is a world-renowned authority on film genre and is Professor of Film Studies Sheffield Hallam University and is the author of Genre and Hollywood (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Routledge, 1998).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(10)
Steve Neale
Section One: Genre: Tradition and Innovation
Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster
11(16)
Sheldon Hall
Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s
27(21)
Steve Neale
The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose
48(14)
J. P. Telotte
Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood
62(15)
Michael Hammond
From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Woman's Film
77(14)
Karen Hollinger
Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century
91(14)
Carolyn Anderson
John Lupo
From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society
105(12)
Andrew Tudor
The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978--99
117(13)
William Paul
Conforming Passions?: Contemporary Romantic Comedy
130(18)
Frank Krutnik
Pleasing the Million: Shakespearean Cinema of the 1990s
148(17)
Roberta E. Pearson
Section Two: Genre: New Cycles and Trends
Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalisation, 1990--99
165(20)
Tino Balio
`The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made': Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema since the 1960s
185(16)
Peter Kramer
Movie Ratings as Genre: The Incontestable R
201(17)
Kevin S. Sandler
Cinema and the Premises of Youth: `Teen Films' and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s
218(18)
James Hay
Stephen Bailey
Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle
236(15)
S. Craig Watkins
`Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-noir
251(18)
Peter Stanfield
Grisham Adaptations and the Legal Thriller
269(12)
Keith Bartlett
Film Parody and the Resuscitation of Genre
281(13)
Dan Harries
`Gone with the Wind Plus Fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula
294(15)
Thomas Austin
Index 309

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