Barry Keith Grant est un éminent universitaire dont les travaux explorent le cœur de la culture populaire et du cinéma. Ses analyses critiques examinent les structures et les significations intégrées dans le cinéma de genre, offrant des perspectives éclairées sur la manière dont ces films façonnent et reflètent la compréhension sociétale. Les contributions éditoriales et auctoriales approfondies de Grant ont considérablement fait progresser l'étude du cinéma, rendant les concepts cinématographiques complexes accessibles à un public plus large.
an excellent new publication. The authors, with many years of experience in teaching and writing behind them, are well able to distill the material and present a coherent reference guide. Everything you would expect to find is here and it is difficult to argue with any of the definitions... authoritative but accessible definitions that every film student (and every film teacher) will gratefully seize.
The book examines the significant impact of CBS's The Twilight Zone on American television and culture during its original airing from 1959 to 1964. It highlights how the series played a crucial role in transitioning science fiction, horror, and fantasy from niche genres to mainstream popularity. Barry Keith Grant places the show within the broader context of changing broadcast television and societal norms, emphasizing its lasting legacy as a seminal work in telefantasy.
Having emerged from a Swiss glacier and solved his first murder case in more than ninety years (described in The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes), the world’s most famous detective now sleuths through modern London in search of a stolen letter purportedly written by Shakespeare. Holmes displays his usual mental brilliance as he investigates the missing letter and discovers an international plot to arm terrorists. He and his roommate, James Wilson, track the Shakespeare letter and the terrorist arms dealers to a Scottish castle where surprises await . . . and where the two companions quickly find they must be bloody, bold, and resolute if they are to survive.
Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Frederick Wiseman’s career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian’s works since the 1990s.
Introduction§1. Aelita §2. Alien §3. Alphaville §4. Altered States §5. Avatar §6. Back to the Future §7. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms §8. Blade Runner §9. Born in Flames §10. A Boy and his Dog §11. Brazil §12. The Brother From Another Planet §13. The Cabin in the Woods §14. A Clockwork Orange §15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind §16. Colossus: The Forbin Project §17. The Damned §18. Dark City §19. Dark Star §20. The Day the Earth Stood Still §21. Destination Moon §22. District 9 §23. Dune §24. Enemy Mine §25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial §26. Fahrenheit 451 §27. Fantastic Voyage §28. The Fifth Element §29. Flash Gordon (serial) §30. The Fly §31. Forbidden Planet §32. Frankenstein §33. Frau im mond (Woman in the Moon) §34. Galaxy Quest §35. Ghost in the Shell §36. Gojira (Godzilla) §37. The Host §38. The Incredible Shrinking Man §39. I Am Legend §40. Invaders From Mars §41. Invasion of the Body Snatchers §42. The Invisible Man §43. Island of Lost Souls §44. La Jetée §45. Jurassic Park §46. Just Imagine §47. Last Night §48. Liquid Sky §49. Mad Max §50. The Man Who Fell to Earth §51. Mars Attacks! §52. The Matrix §53. Metropolis §54. Nineteen Eighty-Four §55. Paris qui dort §56. Plan 9 From Outer Space §57. Planet of the Apes §58. Quatermass and the Pit §59. The Quiet Earth §60. The Road §61. Robocop §62. Seconds §63. Signs §64. Silent Running §65. The Silent Star §66. Slaughterhouse-Five §67. Sleep Dealer §68. Sleeper §69. Solaris §70. Soylent Green §71. Star Trek: The Motion Picture §72. Star Wars §73. Starship Troopers §74. Strange Days §75. Superman §76. The Terminator §77. Tetsuo: The Iron Man §78. Them! §79. They Live §80. The Thing From Another World §81. The Thing §82. Things to Come §83. THX 1138 §84. The Time Machine §85. Total Recall §86. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America §87. Tron §88. The Tunnel §89. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea §90. 2001: A Space Odyssey §91. Videodrome §92. Village of the Damned §93. Le Voyage dans lune §94. WALL-E §95. The War Game §96. The War of the Worlds §97. Westworld §98. When Worlds Collide §99. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes §100. Zardoz§Notes§Further Reading§Index §
A guide to 100 of the most notable American horror movies by leading popular cinema expert Barry Keith Grant in the BFI Screen Guides series.
With its paranoid plot of alien duplicates replacing average American folk, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first horror film to locate the monstrous in the everyday. Barry Keith Grant's comprehensive study traces the film's production and reception history, and explores themes of genre, communism and conformity and gender.
This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an accessible way and includes sections on the principles of studying and understanding "the idea of genre"; genre and popular culture; the narrative and stylistic conventions of specific genres; the relations of genres to culture and history, race, gender, sexuality, class and national identity; and the complex relations between genre and authorship. Case studies include: "42nd Street," "Pennies from Heaven," "Red River," "All That Heaven Allows," "Night of the Living Dead," "Die Hard," "Little Big Man," "Blue Steel," and "Posse."
From reviews of the third edition: "Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology's consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview." —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
Exploring the intersection of gender and genre, the book delves into how American films engage in a continuous conversation about masculinity rather than merely reflecting societal crises. Barry Keith Grant analyzes a diverse array of genres, such as comedies, horror, and action films, revealing their role in shaping and negotiating cultural perceptions of masculinity. Through this lens, the work highlights the mythic functions of genre cinema in addressing complex issues surrounding gender identity.