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The shifting definitions of genre : essays on labeling films, television shows and media / edited by Lincoln Geraghty and Mark Jancovich.
- Title
- The shifting definitions of genre : essays on labeling films, television shows and media / edited by Lincoln Geraghty and Mark Jancovich.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1995 .S487 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 260 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Histories of science fiction often discuss Fritz Lang's Metropolis as a classic text within the genre--yet the term "science fiction" had not been invented at the time of the film's release. Does retroactive assignment to a genre change our understanding of a film? These provocative questions are at the heart of this book"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pale shadows : narrative hierarchies in the historiography of 1940s horror / Mark Jancovich -- The independent film channel : creating a genre and brand across small screens, big screens, and the virtual world / Liza Treviño -- "Off-beat" as a generic designation in Variety reviews / Jason Scott -- Film noir as male melodrama : the politics of film genre labeling / Janet Staiger -- Beyond the valley of the classical Hollywood cinema : rethinking the "loathsome film" of 1970 / Harry M. Benshoff -- Rethining the history of European horror : television, La porta sul buio and Historias para no dormir / Andrew Willis -- Can rock movies be musicals? The case of This is spinal tap / Andrew Caine -- "A most historic period of change" : the western, the epic and Dances with wolves / James Russell -- "A term rather too general to be helpful : struggling with genre in reality TV / Su Holmes -- Repackaging generation one : genre, fandom, and The transformers as adult/children's television / Lincoln Geraghty -- Subcultural tastes, genre boundaries and fan canons / Brigid Cherry -- Monster legacies : memory, technology and horror history / Peter Hutchings -- "Just men in tights" : rewriting silver age comics in an era of multiplicity / Henry Jenkins.
- ISBN
- 9780786434305 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786434309 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008001074
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library