Hollywood Genres
Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System
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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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Hollywood Genres, Thomas Schatz
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- 1981
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- Title
- Hollywood Genres
- Subtitle
- Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thomas Schatz
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN10
- 0075536234
- ISBN13
- 9780075536239
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- 3.8 out of 5
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- 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.