Film/GenreThis book revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played and recognises that the term genre has different meanings for different groups. |
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Page 51
... kind of singing associated with revelling ( Greek komoidos < komos revelaiodos = song ) , whereas tragedy comes from the type associated with goats , i.e. , satyrs ( Greek tragoidia tragos = goat + oide = song ) . In other words , even ...
... kind of singing associated with revelling ( Greek komoidos < komos revelaiodos = song ) , whereas tragedy comes from the type associated with goats , i.e. , satyrs ( Greek tragoidia tragos = goat + oide = song ) . In other words , even ...
Page 139
... kind and of degree - and the corresponding answers are quite divergent . Let's begin with questions of kind : did film producers during Hollywood's golden age mix genres in fundamentally the same way as they do today ? In one sense ...
... kind and of degree - and the corresponding answers are quite divergent . Let's begin with questions of kind : did film producers during Hollywood's golden age mix genres in fundamentally the same way as they do today ? In one sense ...
Page 149
... kind that parents do and the ' dirty ' kind that enchant youths ... and film audi- ences . Here Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes teach Jennifer Grey ( centre ) the mambo . would not exist without a Dirty Billy or Dirty Dingus Magee ...
... kind that parents do and the ' dirty ' kind that enchant youths ... and film audi- ences . Here Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes teach Jennifer Grey ( centre ) the mambo . would not exist without a Dirty Billy or Dirty Dingus Magee ...
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