Notions of genre : writings on popular film before genre theory /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016. ©2016 |
| Description: | vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10928472 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Comedy
- Chapter 1. Comedy's Greatest Era
- Chapter 2. Silent Film Comedy
- Chapter 3. Uncle Sam's Funny Bone
- Chapter 4. Whatever Happened to Hollywood Comedy?
- Chapter 5. The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy
- Chapter 6. From Kops to Robbers: Transformation of Archetypal Figures in the American Cinema of the 1920s and '30s
- Part II. The Western
- Chapter 7. The Psychological Appeal of the Hollywood Western
- Chapter 8. The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
- Chapter 9. The Olympian Cowboy
- Chapter 10. The Changing Cowboy: From Dime Novel to Dollar Film
- Chapter 11. Sociological Symbolism of the "Adult Western"
- Chapter 12. Puritanism Revisited: An Analysis of the Contemporary Screen-Image Western
- Part III. The Fantastic
- Chapter 13. Supernaturalism in the Movies
- Chapter 14. Reflections on Horror Movies
- Chapter 15. A Brief, Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film
- Chapter 16. The Imagination of Disaster
- Chapter 17. Extrapolative Cinema
- Chapter 18. Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film
- Part IV. Crime and Punishment
- Chapter 19. The Gangster as Tragic Hero
- Chapter 20. Evolution of the Thriller
- Chapter 21. Toward a Definition of Film Noir
- Chapter 22. Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir
- Chapter 23. Introduction to The Gangster Film
- Index
