Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

by Stephen Neale
Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

by Stephen Neale

Paperback(2002)

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Overview

This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood's output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films as Sense and Sensibility, Grifters, The Mask, When Harry Met Sally, Pocahontas, Titanic, Basic Instinct, Coppola's Dracula, and Malcolm X.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780851708874
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/22/2008
Edition description: 2002
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

STEVE NEALE is a world-renowned authority on film genre and is Professor of Film Studies Sheffield Hallam University and is the author of Genre and Hollywood (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Routledge, 1998).

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1.
Introduction, by Steve Neale

SECTION ONE: Genre: Tradition and
Innovation
2. Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster, by Sheldon Hall
3. Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s, by Steve Neale
4. The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose, by J. P. Telotte
5. Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood, by Mike Hammond
6. From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Women's Film, by Karen Hollinger
7. Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century, by Carolyn Anderson and Jon Lupo
8. From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society, by Andrew Tudor
9. The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978-1999, by William Paul
10. Conforming Passions? Contemporary Romantic Comedy, by Frank Krutnik
11. Pleasing the million: Shakespearean Cinema of the Nineties, by Roberta Pearson

SECTION TWO: Genre: New Cycles and Trends
12. Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalization: 1990-99, by Tino Balio
13. The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made: Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema Since the 1960s, by Peter Kramer
14. Movie Ratings as Genre: The
Incontestable R, by Kevin Sandler
15. Cinema and the Premises of Youth: Teen Films and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s, by James Hay and Stephen Bailey
16. Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle, by S. Craig Watkins
17. 'Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-Noir, by Peter Stanfield
18. Grisham Adaptions and the Legal Thriller, by Keith Bartlett
19. Film Parody and the Rescuscitation of Genre, by Dan Harries
20. 'Gone With the Wind plus fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Thomas Austin


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