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Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 64GEN FILAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENRES ; WESTERNS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; DISASTER FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; CANADA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SEMIOLOGY ; STRUCTURALISM ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; FORD, JOHN ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; CHANDLER, RAYMOND ; FRYE, NORTHROP ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949) ; YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957) ; VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and indexISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11563059
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Genre and Hollywood / Steve Neale London: Routledge, 2000.
Call No: 64GEN NEAAuthor: Neale, Steve Place: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2000PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cmSubject: GENRES ; FILM NOIR ; MELODRAMA ; ACTION FILMS ; ADVENTURE FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; COMEDIES ; CRIME FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; FORMALISM ; FRONTIERS IN FILMS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; USA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; THRILLERS ; WAR FILMS ; WESTERNS ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; BASINGER, JEANINE ; DOHERTY, THOMAS ; SCHATZ, THOMAS Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.Notes: Includes bibliography and indexISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)LON: 21413450
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The horror reader / edited by Ken Gelder New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Call No: 735.2 HORAuthor: Gelder, Ken, 1955 Place: New York, NYPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2000PhysDes: xiii, 414 p. ; 25 cmSubject: CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; DRACULA IN FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; FAN MAGAZINES ; FANTASTIC FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GHOST FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG ; HORROR FILMS. ITALY ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; MONSTERS IN FILMS ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; SERIAL KILLERS IN FILMS ; SLASHER FILMS ; THEORY ; VAMPIRE FILMS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; ARGENTO, DARIO ; BAVA, MARIO ; CASTLE, TERRY ; CHEUNG, LESLIE ; CORMAN, ROGER ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; AMERICAN GOTHIC (US, John Hough, 1987) ; CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (UK, Terence Fisher, 1957) ; BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935) ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; FRIDAY THE 13TH (US, Sean S. Cunningham, 1980) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; OPERA (IT, Dario Argento, 1987) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987) ; CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987) ; SUSPIRIA (IT, Dario Argento, 1977) ; YANZHI KOU (HK, Stanley Kwan, 1987) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 041521355X (HB : alk. paper); 0415213568 (PB : alk. paper)LON: 21262689
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