| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 296-298. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Defining genre ; Genre and popular culture -- The western as myth and romance. Landscape ; Movement ; The romance of the West ; The lonely hero ; Sheriffs and marshals ; The outlaw and the gangster ; Stagecoach (1939) ; Winchester '73 (1950) ; Shane (1953) ; Johnny Guitar (1954) ; The searchers (1956) ; Comanche station (1960) ; The wild bunch (1969) ; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) -- Singing and dancing: the sound of metaphor. The metaphorical mode ; The procedures of metaphor ; Categories of the genre ; Filmmakers ; The theory of integration ; Thematic integration: A star is born and An American in Paris ; A note on the musical theater ; Gold diggers of 1933 (1933) ; Top hat (1935) ; Swing time (1936) ; The pirate (1948) ; Singin' in the rain (1952) ; The band wagon (1953) ; Funny girl (1968) ; Cabaret (1972) -- The nightmare world. Fears and horrors ; The cinema of reason and nightmare ; The terror of the plausible: an aspect of science fiction films ; Irrational terrors ; Romantic isolation ; Some minor categories ; King Kong (1933) ; The bride of Frankenstein (1935) ; Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) ; Psycho (1960) ; The birds (1963) ; Night of the living dead (1968) ; Rosemary's baby (1968) ; The exorcist (1973) -- |
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The life of crime. The categories of criminal films ; The gangster mind ; Criminal values ; Prisoners ; The public enemy (1931) ; Force of evil (1949) ; White heat (1949) ; Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) ; On the waterfront (1954) ; Bonnie and Clyde (1969) ; The godfather (1972) -- The search for clues. Categories of investigation ; Procedures of detection ; Motivation ; Police professionalism ; The private detective myth ; The Maltese falcon (1941) ; The big sleep (1946) ; Harper (1966) ; Bullitt (1968) ; Klute (1971) ; Dirty Harry (1972) ; Chinatown (1974) -- Wars: hot and cold. War as an attitudinal genre ; War as propaganda ; The antiwar film ; War in the air ; Was as background ; Victims of war ; Exiles and isolated heroes ; Spies and secret agents ; Hell's angels (1936) ; Gone with the wind (1939) ; To be or not be (1942) ; Casablanca (1942) ; Paths of glory (1957) ; North by northwest (1959) ; Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1963) ; Patton (1970) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States.
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Film genres.
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| ISBN |
0155054007 |
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9780155054004 |
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