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Film genre reader
Edité par University of Texas press ; C 1986
Genre films, with their distinctive iconography and conventions, have dominated the history of the American cinema from its beginnings until the present day. As a system of filmmaking, genre has been one of the most important factors in making the cinema both an art and a highly successful form of popular entertainment. In 1977, Barry Grant edited "Film Genre : theory and criticism", the first critical anthology devoted entirely to the subject of genre in film. Now, in an extensively revised and updated volume entitled "Film genre reader", he has gathered together 23 essays comprising much of the best recent writing in the field and including the work of such noted film critics and scholars as John G. Cawelti, Thomas Elsaesser, Paul Schrader, Thomas Schatz, Robin Wood, and others. (source : éditeur)
