Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio SystemSchatz analyzes the studio system and tells what film genres mean in a general and theoretical way. Describing some important movie genres in Hollywood's "Golden Era", -- the Western, the gangster film, detective movies, screwball comedies, the musical and the family melodrama -- he surveys selected films and the work of directors associated with them. |
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FILM GENRES AND THE GENRE FILM | 14 |
Toward a grammar of film genre | 20 |
THE WESTERN | 45 |
Copyright | |
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