Moine Cinema Genre

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0127-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both filmproduction and the history of film. Genres play a key role in howmoviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine afilm's production values and costs.
Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volumeoffers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre aspracticed in British, American and French film criticism. Organizedby a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book usesnumerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western,drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some morecontemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are sooften neglected by other studies in the field. How do wecharacterize genre and what are its various functions? In what waysdoes genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What isthe cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate withinand across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly,Moine's book is accessible to general readers and adaptseasily to a wide range of teaching approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moine, Raphaëlle

Weitere Mitwirkende

Radner, Hilary

Fox, Alistair

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translators' Note.
Foreword by Janet Staiger.
Introduction.
1. In the Genre Jungle.
Cinematic Genre. An Empirical Category.
Every Use Has Its Own Typology.
An Impossible Typology?.
2. Looking for the Rules of Genre.
Looking for Genre's Formal Rules.
Genre: An Intertextual Phenomenon.
In Search of the Structures of Genre.
Semantic-Syntactic Definitions of Genre.
3. What Is the Purpose of Genres?.
A Production Tool.
The Social Functions of Genre.
The Communicative Function of Genre.
4. The Generic Identities of a Film.
The Relations Between Film and Genre.
The Uses of Generic Identity.
The Mixing of Genres: Pluri-generic Attributes.
5. How to Conceptualize the History of a Genre?.
To Put an End to the Theory of Generic Evolution.
The Birth of a Cinematic Genre.
Hybridization and Mutation of Genres.
6. Genres in Context.
Cultural Identity and the Circulation of Genres.
Generic Regimes.
Conclusion.
Select Bibliography.
Filmography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Cinema Studiesat Université Paris X-Nanterre.
Hilary Radner is Professor of Film and Media Studies atthe University of Otago.
Alistair Fox is Professor of English at the University ofOtago.