
| Preface to the Fourth Edition; Introduction Part One: Theory 1. Genre (ANDREW TUDOR); 2. The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema (EDWARD BUSCOMBE); 3. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre (RICK ALTMAN); 4. Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History (LEGER GRINDON ); 5. Genre Films and the Status Quo (JUDITH HESS WRIGHT); 6. Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres (JEAN-LOUP BOURGET); 7. Ideology, Genre, Auteur (ROBIN WOOD); 8. "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" Revisited: The Progressive Genre (BARBARA KLINGER); 9. The Structural Influence: New Directions in Film Genre Study (THOMAS SCHATZ); 10. Genre Film: A Classical Experience (THOMAS SOBCHACK); 11. Experience and Meaning in Genre Films (BARRY KEITH GRANT); 12. Genre and Performance: An Overview (RICHARD DE CORDOVA); 13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess (LINDA WILLIAMS); 14. Questions of Genre (STEVE NEALE); 15. Hybrid or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre History (JANET STAIGER); 16. Film Genres at the Crossroads: What Genres and Films Do to Each Other (CELESTINO DELEYTO) Part Two: Selected Genre Criticism 17. The Western (Genre and Movies) (DOUGLAS PYE); 18. Apes and Essences: Some Sources of Significance in the American Gangster Film (EDWARD MITCHELL); 19. Notes on Film Noir (PAUL SCHRADER); 20. Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films (JOHN G. CAWELTI); 21. Shoot-Out at the Genre Corral: Problems in the "Evolution" of the Western (TAG GALLAGHER); 22. The Bug in the Rug: Notes on the Disaster Genre (MAURICE YACOWAR); 23. "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic (VIVIAN SOBCHACK); 24. Children of the Light (BRUCE F. KAWIN); 25. Monsters from the Id (MARGARET TARRATT); 26. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (Among Other Things) New Latino Imagery (CHARLES RAMIREZ BERG); 27. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama (THOMAS ELSAESSER); 28. Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage (DAVID R. SHUMWAY); 29. Redressing the "Natural": The Temporary Transvestite Film (CHRIS STRAAYER); 30. Friendly Civilians: Images of Women and the Feminization of the Audience in Vietnam War Films (SUSAN JEFFORDS); 31. The Family in Action (YVONNE TASKER); 32. The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment (JANE FEUER); 33. The Black Gangster Film (MARK A. REID); 34. Teen Films: The Cinematic Image of Youth (TIMOTHY SHARY); 35. Re presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film (ANDREW HIGSON); 36. Global Noir: Genre Film in the Age of Transnationalism (DAVID DESSER) Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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