Film genre reader IV

"Newly revised and expanded nearly a decade after the third edition, Film Genre Reader is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes over thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramz Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood"--

Revision of Film genre reader III. 2003.

Part 1: Theory. Genre / Andrew Tudor ; The idea of genre in the American cinema / Edward Buscombe ; A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman ; Cycles and clusters : the shape of film genre history / Leger Grindon ; Genre films and the status quo / Judith Hess Wright ; Social implications in the Hollywood genres / Jean-Loup Bourget ; Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood ; "Cinema/ideology/criticism" revisited : the progressive genre / Barbara Klinger ; The structural influence : new directions in film genre study / Thomas Schatz ; Genre film : a classical experience / Thomas Sobchack ; Experience and meaning in genre films / Barry Keith Grant ; Genre and performance : an overview / Richard De Cordova ; Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams ; Questions of genre / Steve Neale ; Hybrid or inbred : the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history / Janet Staiger ; Film genres at the crossroads : what genres and films do to each other / Celestino Deley