{"product_id":"notions-of-genre-9781477311080","title":"Notions of Genre","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, this anthology is the only single-volume source for important early writing on genre films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction (Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Comedy \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Comedy’s Greatest Era (James Agee)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Silent Film Comedy (Siegfried Kracauer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Uncle Sam’s Funny Bone (Allen Eyles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Whatever Happened to Hollywood Comedy? (Dwight Macdonald)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy (Donald W. McCaffrey)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. From Kops to Robbers: Transformation of Archetypal Figures in the American Cinema of the 1920s and '30s (Carolyn and Harry Geduld)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. The Western \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. The Psychological Appeal of the Hollywood Western (Frederick Elkin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence (André Bazin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. The Olympian Cowboy (Harry Schein)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. The Changing Cowboy: From Dime Novel to Dollar Film (George Bluestone)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Sociological Symbolism of the \"Adult Western\" (Martin Nussbaum)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Puritanism Revisited: An Analysis of the Contemporary Screen-Image Western (Peter Homans)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III. The Fantastic \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Supernaturalism in the Movies (Parker Tyler)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Reflections on Horror Movies (Robert Brustein)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. A Brief, Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film (Richard Hodgens)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. The Imagination of Disaster (Susan Sontag)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Extrapolative Cinema (Ivor A. Rogers)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film (R. H. W. Dillard)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV. Crime and Punishment \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. The Gangster as Tragic Hero (Robert Warshow)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. Evolution of the Thriller (Claude Chabrol)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21. Toward a Definition of Film Noir (Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22. Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir (Raymond Durgnat)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23. Introduction to The Gangster Film (John Baxter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408947257687,"sku":"9781477311080","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477311080.jpg?v=1730504814","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/notions-of-genre-9781477311080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}