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Barry Keith Grant - Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory - 9781477303757 - V9781477303757
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Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory

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Description for Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory Hardback. Editor(s): Grant, Barry Keith; Kurtz, Malisa. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 661. Weight in Grams: 582.

Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand their conventions and how they speak to, for, and about the culture that produces them. While this early writing on genre film was often unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and judgmental, it nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and valuable today.

Notions of Genre gathers the most important early writing on film genre and genre ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477303757
SKU
V9781477303757
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Ref
99-1

About Barry Keith Grant
Barry Keith Grant is a professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. Malisa Kurtz received her PhD from Brock University in Interdisciplinary Humanities.

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