Film/Genre

Name: Film/Genre
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9780851707174
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By Rick Altman

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Film/Genre by Rick Altman re-examines traditional ideas about film genres, exploring how industry professionals, critics, and audiences all play active roles in defining and redefining genres. Altman critiques historical genre theories from Aristotle through Wittgenstein, uncovering the complexities and conflicting interests involved. The book discusses a wide variety of films, from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Star Wars," highlighting the evolving nature of genre classifications.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of film studies, cinema enthusiasts interested in genre theory, and professionals in the film industry seeking a deeper understanding of genre dynamics.

This 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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This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre.

In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term genre has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a range of films from The Great Train Robbery to Star Wars, and from The Jazz Singer to The Player.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780851707174

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 1999

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: illustrated

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Rick Altman

About the Author

Rick Altman is Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of The American Film Musical (Indiana University Press and BFI Publishing) and the editor of Cinema/Sound and Sound Theory/Sound Practice.