In 93 impassioned and enlightening essays, members of the highly regarded NSFC offer their thoughts on thirteen film genres.
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Jameson, an editor for Film Comment magazine, presents a fine collection of uniformly intelligent essays on recent trends in traditional film genres and the emergence of new genres (e.g., women's movies). Essays on directors are included, along with reviews of especially pivotal films like Dances with Wolves (1990) and Platoon (1986), which recast the conventional war movie with themes unique to Vietnam. Prominent critics are featured, including Andrew Sarris and Richard Schickel; and who could be more appropriate than Playboy magazine's Bruce Williamson to review (unfavorably) The French Lieutenant's Woman ? For list lovers, there is an appended, intriguingly debatable catalog of classic films in each genre. Though somewhat dated now, the definitive study on the subject is still Thomas Schatz's Hollywood Genres ( LJ 6/1/81). For comprehensive collections.
- Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The fourth in a valuable series collects more than 90 articles on movies that, as the subtitle indicates, attempt to "redefine film genres." Jameson gathers reviews by dozens of well-known film critics and places them into chapters on "Film Noir and Gangster Films," "Westerns," "Comedy," "Romance," "The Director as Genre," "The Star as Genre," "Action," "Horror," "Science Fiction," "War Movies," "The Women," "Literary Adaptations," and "Movie Adaptations: Sequels and Remakes." While he makes plenty of obvious choices (e.g., Scorsese's Goodfellas as a gangster film, Eastwood's Unforgiven as a western), Jameson throws a few curves; for instance, Andy Klein on the gender-bending Crying Game as a romance, and J. Hoberman on the dark Heathers as a comedy. Welcome inclusions are, in the westerns section, an excellent piece by David Kehr on neglected director Anthony Mann, and, in the directors section, another, especially written for this book, by Michael Wilmington on Howard Hawks. Benjamin Segedin
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