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Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System [Paperback]

Thomas Schatz (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0075536234 | ISBN-13: 978-0075536239 | Publication Date: February 1, 1981 | Edition: 1

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.

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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 1 edition (February 1, 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536234
ISBN-13: 978-0075536239
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

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Everyone should read this to learn more about Hollywood genres and realize that today's Hollywood is much different that how film used to be shot.

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A well written book which explores Hollywood genres with easy to read examples of classic Hollywood movies, and their effect on the movie-going public of the day. Comprehensive and absorbing.

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