About this title: 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 it's 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date published: 1981-02-01
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date published: 1981-02-01
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 7 inches. (300 pages) 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 it's audience. this process, embodies by the hollywood ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sc
Date published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date published: 1981-02-01
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Date published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780075536239ISBN:0075536234
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