Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System

Author: Thomas Schatz

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Published: 1981-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Genius of the System
The Genius of the System

Author: Thomas Schatz

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1627796452

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At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the genius of a system of collaboration and conflict. Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making-and unmaking-of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel. Richly illustrated and highly readable, The Genius of the System gives the definitive view of the workings of the Old Hollywood and the foundations of the New.

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond

Author: Robin Wood

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780231129664

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This new edition includes all the chapters of the original work, supplemented with analysis of comedy films of the 1990s, a chapter on contemporary filmmakers, including David Fincher & Jim Jarmusch, & an essay on 'Day of the Dead'

Boom and Bust
Boom and Bust

Author: Thomas Schatz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-11-23

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780520221307

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On the history of motion pictures

Genre and Hollywood
Genre and Hollywood

Author: Steve Neale

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-20

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1134973454

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Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema. Neale takes issue with much genre criticism and genre theory, which has provided only a partial and misleading account of Hollywood's output. He calls for broader and more flexible conceptions of genre and genres, for more attention to be paid to the discourses and practices of Hollywood itself, for the nature and range of Hollywood's films to be looked at in more detail, and for any assessment of the social and cultural significance of Hollywood's genres to take account of industrial factors. In detailed, revisionist accounts of two major genres - film noir and melodrama - Neale argues that genre remains an important and productive means of thinking about both New and old Hollywood, its history, its audiences and its films.

A Companion to Film Theory
A Companion to Film Theory

Author: Toby Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-05-21

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780631206453

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This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject. Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies. Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship. Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology. Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future. Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

Imitations of Life
Imitations of Life

Author: Marcia Landy

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9780814320655

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On melodrama.