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Hollywood Genres

Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System

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The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.

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Hollywood Genres, Thomas Schatz

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1981
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Titre
Hollywood Genres
Sous-titre
Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System
Langue
Anglais
Éditeur
McGraw-Hill
Publié
1981
Format
souple
Pages
300
ISBN10
0075536234
ISBN13
9780075536239
Séries
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The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.