Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Film Studies: Film Genre

Books Available at the Andersen Library

Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale
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Books Available Through UW Request from other UW System Libraries

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Film Genres: Hollywood and Beyond by Barry Langford
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking and the Studio System by Thomas Schatz
Reconfiguring Film Genres: Theory and History by Nick Browne

Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader by Barry Keith Grant (Ed.)
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ISBN: 9781405153331
Publication Date: 2008
Unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces. Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers' oeuvres, rather than on one specific film.
Film/Genre by Rick Altman
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ISBN: 9780851707174
Publication Date: 1998
Connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played.
The Film Genre Book by John Sanders
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ISBN: 9781903663912
Publication Date: 2009
Comprehensive introduction to film history, Focuses on seven genres, highlighting a key film from each genre over a ninety-year period-sixty-three films discussed in detail. Considers issues of historical context, representation and the close textual analysis of significant scenes.
Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant (Ed.)
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ISBN: 9780292742062
Publication Date: 2012
Essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema.

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