Refiguring American film genres : history and theory /

Refiguring American film genres : history and theory / Nick Browne, editor. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998. - xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A collection of essays by American scholars examining fresh territory in genre film criticism. The contributors offer ways to think about types of films and patterns in films in a historical context. Included are essays on melodrama, race, "film noir" and the industrial context of genre production.

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Film genres--United States.
Géneros cinematográficos--Estados Unidos
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos

PN 1993.5 / R332 1998

791.43/6