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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This is a groundbreaking study, sure to change thinking about the notion of genre, within film studies and beyond. The book is also written with a wonderful sense of humor, even though this is a serious study. Don't pick this up if you just have a light interest in genre films, but if you want to think long and hard about the very category of genre itself. I'd say the book was worth owing for the massive bibliography alone.
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Too be as short as possilbe: Anybody who is even slightly interested in the field of genre theory should read this book.
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It doesn't matter if you're a genius or not if you can't communicate with everyone else. Rick Altman needs to go back to school and learn how to write. To be be fair though the man does raise interesting and important points on Genre Theory, but again such knowledge is useless if it cannot be discerned from the large amounts of fluff he has in this book as filler. He never gets to the point and the points he does have can be summarized very easily.
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Of all the concepts fundamental to literary theory, none has a longer and more distinguished lineage than the question of literary types, or genres. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constellated communities, constellated community, genrification process, generic crossroads, genre theoreticians, noun genre, generic pleasure, generic corpus, literary genre theory, genre users, genre viewing, genre theorists, generic economy, martial musical, genre viewers, genre terminology, generic vocabulary, generic terminology, genre critics, term melodrama, absent community, pure genres, genre mixing, commutation process, genre fans Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Bros, Die Hard, The Great Train Robbery, Producer's Game, James Bond, New York, George Arliss, Black Lagoon, Film Daily Year Book, Tom Cruise, United States, Alexander Hamilton, Critic's Game, Northrop Frye, Stephen Neale, Thomas Schatz, Top Hat, Nancy Drew, New Comedy, Old English, Star Wars, Audubon Society, Darryl Zanuck, Joel Silver, Raiders of the Lost Ark New!
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Of all the concepts fundamental to literary theory, none has a longer and more distinguished lineage than the question of literary types, or genres. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constellated communities, constellated community, genrification process, generic crossroads, genre theoreticians, noun genre, generic pleasure, generic corpus, literary genre theory, genre users, genre viewing, genre theorists, generic economy, martial musical, genre viewers, genre terminology, generic vocabulary, generic terminology, genre critics, term melodrama, absent community, pure genres, genre mixing, commutation process, genre fans Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Bros, Die Hard, The Great Train Robbery, Producer's Game, James Bond, New York, George Arliss, Black Lagoon, Film Daily Year Book, Tom Cruise, United States, Alexander Hamilton, Critic's Game, Northrop Frye, Stephen Neale, Thomas Schatz, Top Hat, Nancy Drew, New Comedy, Old English, Star Wars, Audubon Society, Darryl Zanuck, Joel Silver, Raiders of the Lost Ark New!
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- Film Genre Reader by Andrew Tudor on 5 pages
- Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye on 4 pages
- Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification by Paul Hernadi on page 84, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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