Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System

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Temple University Press, 1981 - Performing Arts - 297 pages
Schatz 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
THE WESTERN
45
THE GANGSTER FILM
81
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