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Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System

By Thomas Schatz

Book information

Publisher
Random House
Year
1981
ISBN
039432255X, 9780394322551
LCC
PN1993.5.U6 S32
Open Library ID
OL4110737M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
55 MB (58173547 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
307\307
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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