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Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory

by Barry Keith Grant

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Acknowledgments Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz) Part I. Comedy 1. Comedy’s Greatest Era (James Agee) 2. Silent Film Comedy (Siegfried Kracauer) 3. Uncle Sam’s Funny Bone (Allen Eyles) 4. Whatever Happened to Hollywood... Read more
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz)
  • Part I. Comedy
    • 1. Comedy’s Greatest Era (James Agee)
    • 2. Silent Film Comedy (Siegfried Kracauer)
    • 3. Uncle Sam’s Funny Bone (Allen Eyles)
    • 4. Whatever Happened to Hollywood Comedy? (Dwight Macdonald)
    • 5. The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy (Donald W. McCaffrey)
    • 6. From Kops to Robbers: Transformation of Archetypal Figures in the American Cinema of the 1920s and ''30s (Carolyn and Harry Geduld)
  • Part II. The Western
    • 7. The Psychological Appeal of the Hollywood Western (Frederick Elkin)
    • 8. The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence (André Bazin)
    • 9. The Olympian Cowboy (Harry Schein)
    • 10. The Changing Cowboy: From Dime Novel to Dollar Film (George Bluestone)
    • 11. Sociological Symbolism of the "Adult Western" (Martin Nussbaum)
    • 12. Puritanism Revisited: An Analysis of the Contemporary Screen-Image Western (Peter Homans)
  • Part III. The Fantastic
    • 13. Supernaturalism in the Movies (Parker Tyler)
    • 14. Reflections on Horror Movies (Robert Brustein)
    • 15. A Brief, Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film (Richard Hodgens)
    • 16. The Imagination of Disaster (Susan Sontag)
    • 17. Extrapolative Cinema (Ivor A. Rogers)
    • 18. Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film (R. H. W. Dillard)
  • Part IV. Crime and Punishment
    • 19. The Gangster as Tragic Hero (Robert Warshow)
    • 20. Evolution of the Thriller (Claude Chabrol)
    • 21. Toward a Definition of Film Noir (Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton)
    • 22. Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir (Raymond Durgnat)
    • 23. Introduction to The Gangster Film (John Baxter)
  • Index
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File size9 X 6 X 1 in
Print pages304
PublisherUniversity Of Texas Press
Publication date November 8, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781477303757
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Barry Keith Grant
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Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is an Elected Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the annual Pedagogy Award from ...

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