Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

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Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780851708874
  • DDC分類 791.430

基本説明

This wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades.

Full Description


A collection of essays that look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades pf the 20th century. The collection focuses on animated feature films, teenpics, biopics, comedies, Shakespeare adaptations, and female-oriented dramas, as well as blockbusters, westerns, gangster films, horror films, war films and neo-noir. Films covered include: "The Quick and The Dead"; "Sense and Sensibility"; "The Grifters"; "When Harry Met Sally"; and "Malcolm X".

Contents

CONTENTS 1. Introduction, by Steve Neale SECTION ONE: Genre: Tradition and Innovation 2. Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster, by Sheldon Hall 3. Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s, by Steve Neale 4. The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose, by J. P. Telotte 5. Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood, by Mike Hammond 6. From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Women's Film, by Karen Hollinger 7. Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century, by Carolyn Anderson and Jon Lupo 8. From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society, by Andrew Tudor 9. The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978-1999, by William Paul 10. Conforming Passions? Contemporary Romantic Comedy, by Frank Krutnik 11. Pleasing the million: Shakespearean Cinema of the Nineties, by Roberta Pearson SECTION TWO: Genre: New Cycles and Trends 12. Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalization: 1990-99, by Tino Balio 13. The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made: Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema Since the 1960s, by Peter Kramer 14. Movie Ratings as Genre: The Incontestable R, by Kevin Sandler 15. Cinema and the Premises of Youth: Teen Films and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s, by James Hay and Stephen Bailey 16. Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle, by S. Craig Watkins 17. 'Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-Noir, by Peter Stanfield 18. Grisham Adaptions and the Legal Thriller, by Keith Bartlett 19. Film Parody and the Rescuscitation of Genre, by Dan Harries 20. 'Gone With the Wind plus fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Thomas Austin Index