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Film/Genre

By Rick Altman

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
1999
ISBN
0851707173, 9780851707174
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
74 MB (77198232 bytes)
Pages
246\128
Time added
2014-06-27 16:07:46

Description

This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a range of films from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Star Wars", and from "The Jazz Singer" to "The Player".

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