Genre and Hollywood

by Steve Neale

Book Overview

Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema.
Neale takes issue with much genre criticism and genre theory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415026067
• ISBN13: 9780415026062
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"