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Notions of Genre
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Edited by Barry Keith Grant & Malisa Kurtz
"Original and important. This anthology demonstrates that our immediate predecessors were often highly perceptive and indeed, in some cases, were making a clear case that movies and popular culture of all sorts deserved to be taken seriously. The selection of essays is outstanding."-Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University, author of The Horror Film: An Introduction
"By bringing together the major critics writing on film in the pre-theory era, this anthology helps to advance the study of cinema genres and also to acquaint new readers to this older tradition of excellent critical commentary."-Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech, author of Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film and coeditor of An Introduction to Film Genres
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 films published between 1945 and 1969. It includes articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in academic disciplines such as history, sociology, and theater. Their writings address major issues in genre studies, including definition, representation, ideology, audiences, and industry practices, across genres ranging from comedy and westerns to horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and thrillers. The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre films, Notions of Genre will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural studies, and popular culture.
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.
University of Texas Press
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