This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.
1. Who needs genres?; 2. Before Genre: Melodrama; Part One: Classical Paradigms; 3. The Western: Genre and History; 4. The Musical: Genre and Form; 5. The War/Combat Film: Genre and Nation; 6. The Gangster Film: Genre and Society; Part Two: Transitional Fantasies; 7. The Horror Film; 8. The Science-Fiction Film; Part Three: Post-Classical Genres; 9. Film Noir; 10. The Action Blockbuster; 11. Genre: Breaking the Frame; (i) Documentary; (ii) Holocaust Film; (iii) Pornography; 12. Conclusion: Transgenre?.
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