Covering over 100 feature films in critical depth and detail, this
reader provides an excellent introduction to American genre
filmmaking since 1990. These previously unpublished essays by
prominent film scholars each address a different film genre -- from
science fiction to romance to '90s noir -- as well as the ways in
which genre filmmaking as a whole has been changed by the new
technologies and market forces that are shaping the future of
cinema.
One of the peculiar aspects of recent American genre filmmaking
is its apparent facelessness, its desire to subsume itself into the
larger framework of genre cinema, and not to identify each film as
a unique exemplar. What this book argues, among other things, is
that the implicit message in contemporary genre films is rarely
that which is signified by a film's external or even internal
narrative structure. What drives the thematic and structural
concerns of recent genre cinema is the recovery of initial
investment, made all the more pressing by the fact that each film
released theatrically now represents an investment of many millions
of dollars.
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