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American film genres : approaches to a critical theory of popular film / by Stuart M. Kaminsky.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U6 K34
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaminsky, Stuart M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Film genres.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 232 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Dayton, Ohio] : Pflaum Publishing, [1974]
- Contents:
- Introduction: what is film genre?
- The individual film: Little Caesar and the gangster film
- Comparative forms: the samurai film and the Western
- Literary adaptation and change: The killers
- Hemingway, film noir, and the terror of daylight
- Contemporary problems: The white-hot violence of the 1970s
- Variation on a major genre: the big caper film
- Psychological considerations: horror and science fiction
- Performing arts: the musical / by Jerome Delamater
- History and social change: comedy and individual expression
- The genre director: the films of Donald Siegel
- The genre director: character types in the films of John Ford
- Conclusion and summary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies, filmographies, and index.
- ISBN:
- 0827802781.
- 0827802773
- OCLC:
- 1195246
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