Author: David Fishelov
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd)
Keywords: genre, theory, analogies, role, metaphors
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2003-01-23
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0271023252
ISBN-13: 9780271023250
In Metaphors of Genre, David Fishelov demonstrates the important role played by analogies in genre theory and provides a critical presentation of four specific analogies that permeate modern genre theory: the biological analogy, the family ’’metaphor,’’ the institutional perspective, and the ’’speech act’’ analogy. While making a critical presentation of the existing theories, Fishelov offers new perspectives and hypotheses within each analogy. The discussion in each case is accompanied with an analysis of some examples from the generic tradition
Author: Rick Altman
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: genre, film
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0851707173
ISBN-13: 9780851707174
This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a range of films from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Star Wars", and from "The Jazz Sin
Author: Michael McCarty
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: genre, giants
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0809544776
ISBN-13: 9780809544776
Author: Adena Rosmarin
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: genre, power
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1986-03-03
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0816613966
ISBN-13: 9780816613960
The Power of Genre was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Power of Genre is a radical and systematic rethinking of the relationship between literary genre and critical explanation. Adene Rosmarin shows how traditional theories of genre—whether called "historical," "intrinsic," or "theoretical"—are necessarily undone by their attempts to define genre representationally. Rather, Rosmarin argues, the opening pr
Author: Raphaelle Moine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: genre, cinema
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1405156511
ISBN-13: 9781405156516
Genre - or ’type’ - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film’s production values and costs. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noi
Author: Barry Langford
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: hollywood, genre, film
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0748619038
ISBN-13: 9780748619030
Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across the field, dealing separately and in detail with not only classic genres - including the Western, the musical, the war film, the gangster film, and film noir - but also more recent trends such as body-horror, Holocaust film, and the action blockbuster. Throughout the book, genre is presented as a constantly evolving phenomenon. Writing in a sophisticated yet accessible style, Barry Langford shows h
Author: Heather Dubrow
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Keywords: idiom, critical, genre
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1982-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 041674690X
ISBN-13: 9780416746907
