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Genre and contemporary Hollywood / edited by Steve Neale.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : British Film Institute, 2002.Description: vi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0851708862
  • 0851708870 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 G335 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Tall revenue features : the genealogy of the modern blockbuster / Sheldon Hall -- Westerns and gangster films since the 1970s / Steve Neale -- The new Hollywood musical : from Saturday night fever to Footloose / J.P. Telotte -- Some smothering dreams : the combat film in contemporary Hollywood / Michael Hammond -- From female friends to literary ladies : the contemporary woman's film / Karen Hollinger -- Hollywood lives : the state of the biopic at the turn of the century / Carolyn Anderson and John Lupo -- From paranoia to postmodernism? The horror movie in late modern society / Andrew Tudor -- The impossibility of romance : Hollywood comedy, 1978-99 / William Paul -- Conforming passions? Contemporary romantic comedy / Frank Krutnik -- Pleasing the million : Shakespearean cinema of the 1990s / Roberta E. Pearson -- Hollywood production trends in the era of globalisation, 1990-99 / Tino Balio -- 'The best Disney film Disney never made' : children's films and the family audience in American cinema since the 1960s / Peter Krämer -- Movie ratings as genre : the incontestable R / Kevin S. Sandler -- Cinema and the premises of youth : 'teen films' and their sites in the 1980s and 1990s / James Hay and Stephen Bailey -- Ghetto reelness : Hollywood film production, Black popular culture and the ghetto action film cycle / S. Craig Watkins -- 'Film noir like you've never seen' : Jim Thompson adaptations and cycles of neo-noir / Peter Stanfield -- Grisham adaptations and the legal thriller / Keith Bartlett -- Film parody and the resuscitation of genre / Dan Harries -- 'Gone with the wind plus fangs' : genre, taste and distinction in the assembly, marketing and reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula / Thomas Austin.
Summary: This collection of essays looks in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades of the 20th century.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 G335 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000114852

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tall revenue features : the genealogy of the modern blockbuster / Sheldon Hall -- Westerns and gangster films since the 1970s / Steve Neale -- The new Hollywood musical : from Saturday night fever to Footloose / J.P. Telotte -- Some smothering dreams : the combat film in contemporary Hollywood / Michael Hammond -- From female friends to literary ladies : the contemporary woman's film / Karen Hollinger -- Hollywood lives : the state of the biopic at the turn of the century / Carolyn Anderson and John Lupo -- From paranoia to postmodernism? The horror movie in late modern society / Andrew Tudor -- The impossibility of romance : Hollywood comedy, 1978-99 / William Paul -- Conforming passions? Contemporary romantic comedy / Frank Krutnik -- Pleasing the million : Shakespearean cinema of the 1990s / Roberta E. Pearson -- Hollywood production trends in the era of globalisation, 1990-99 / Tino Balio -- 'The best Disney film Disney never made' : children's films and the family audience in American cinema since the 1960s / Peter Krämer -- Movie ratings as genre : the incontestable R / Kevin S. Sandler -- Cinema and the premises of youth : 'teen films' and their sites in the 1980s and 1990s / James Hay and Stephen Bailey -- Ghetto reelness : Hollywood film production, Black popular culture and the ghetto action film cycle / S. Craig Watkins -- 'Film noir like you've never seen' : Jim Thompson adaptations and cycles of neo-noir / Peter Stanfield -- Grisham adaptations and the legal thriller / Keith Bartlett -- Film parody and the resuscitation of genre / Dan Harries -- 'Gone with the wind plus fangs' : genre, taste and distinction in the assembly, marketing and reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula / Thomas Austin.

This collection of essays looks in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades of the 20th century.

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