Hollywood genres: Formulas, filmmaking, and the studio system - Softcover

Schatz, Thomas

9780394322551: Hollywood genres: Formulas, filmmaking, and the studio system
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ISBN 10: 039432255X ISBN 13: 9780394322551
Publisher: Random House, 1981
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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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  • PublisherRandom House
  • Publication date1981
  • ISBN 10 039432255X
  • ISBN 13 9780394322551
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages297
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