Film genre 2000 : new critical essays / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-

Series:

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film genres--United States.

Film genres.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Film genre two thousand

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Contents:

Chapter 2 New Wave Black Cinema in the 1990s / Mark A. Reid 13

Chapter 3 So Much is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptations in the 1990s / John C. Tibbetts 29

Chapter 4 Of Tunes and Toons: The Movie Musical in the 1990s / Marc Miller 45

Chapter 5 Political Film in the Nineties / Stephen Prince 63

Chapter 6 The Martial Arts Film in the 1990s / David Desser 77

Chapter 7 Same as It Ever Was: Innovation and Exhaustion in the Horror and Science Fiction Films of the 1990s / David Sanjek 111

Chapter 8 "Fighting and Violence and Everything, That's Always Cool": Teen Films in the 1990s / Wheeler Winston Dixon 125

Chapter 9 The Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor: Crime Films during the 1990s / Ron Wilson 143

Chapter 10 Action Films: The Serious, the Ironic, the Postmodern / James M. Welsh 161

Chapter 11 Children's Films in the 1990s / Heather Addison 177

Chapter 12 Noir in the Red and the Nineties in the Black / Tom Conley 193

Chapter 13 Fade-Out in the West: The Western's Last Stand? / Chuck Berg 211

Chapter 14 Hanging on a Star: The Resurrection of the Romance Film in the 1990s / Catherine L. Preston 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791445135

0791445143

OCLC:

41320088