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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb overview of Hollywood film genres
Steve Neale's book offers an excellent, theoretically well-informed, up-to-date and very readable overview of Hollywood film genres. Those who are new to the study of film genre will find this a great one-volume introduction to the subject, and experts will particularly welcome his discussion of definitions of genre (and the critical problems those definitions raise)...
Published on April 13, 2000
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Okay But Not Great
I found this book okay but not great. Clearly, the scholarship on film genre has gone downhill since Stuart M. Kaminsky's seminal work, AMERICAN FILM GENRES. One problem I found is that the book got lost in the weeds of contemporary scholarship that's been infected by obtuse structuralist and post-structuralist studies/theories and radical Marxist, feminist theory, which...
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb overview of Hollywood film genres,
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This review is from: Genre and Hollywood (Sightlines) (Paperback)
Steve Neale's book offers an excellent, theoretically well-informed, up-to-date and very readable overview of Hollywood film genres. Those who are new to the study of film genre will find this a great one-volume introduction to the subject, and experts will particularly welcome his discussion of definitions of genre (and the critical problems those definitions raise). It provides an ideal balance of concrete example and abstract theory and is to my mind currently the best book on this topic. Highly recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay But Not Great,
This review is from: Genre and Hollywood (Sightlines) (Paperback)
I found this book okay but not great. Clearly, the scholarship on film genre has gone downhill since Stuart M. Kaminsky's seminal work, AMERICAN FILM GENRES. One problem I found is that the book got lost in the weeds of contemporary scholarship that's been infected by obtuse structuralist and post-structuralist studies/theories and radical Marxist, feminist theory, which have corrupted a once bright field,
You can find better things on the Internet, or by reading Kaminsky, Jim Kitses' book on the western, HORIZONS WEST, and older scholars like John Cawelti. |
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Genre and Hollywood (Sightlines) by Stephen Neale (Paperback - January 30, 2000)
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