Much of the writing in film studies published today can be
understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before
film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s,
cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about
genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand their
conventions and how they speak to, for, and about the culture that
produces them. While this early writing on genre film was often
unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and judgmental, it
nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and valuable
today. Notions of Genre gathers the most important early writing on
film genre and genre films published between 1945 and 1969. It
includes articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight
Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, Andre Bazin, Robert
Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in
academic disciplines such as history, sociology, and theater. Their
writings address major issues in genre studies, including
definition, representation, ideology, audiences, and industry
practices, across genres ranging from comedy and westerns to
horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and thrillers.
The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre
films, Notions of Genre will be an invaluable resource for scholars
and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural
studies, and popular culture.
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