Genre and Performance: Film and Television

Name: Genre and Performance: Film and Television
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Genre and Performance: Film and Television delves into how popular genres shape our understanding of on-screen performance. Moving beyond the focus on star actors and directors, the book offers an interdisciplinary analysis across various genres, including film noir, horror, biopics, drama-documentaries, westerns, science fiction, sitcoms, spoof news programmes, and Bollywood films, revealing the often-overlooked relationship between genre and performance.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of film and television studies, particularly those interested in genre theory and screen performance.

This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.

This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance.

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Looking at contemporary film and television, Genre and Performance: Film and Television explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together ground-breaking and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field.

Previous studies of screen performance have tended to fix upon star actors, directors, or programme makers, or they have concentrated upon particular training and acting styles. Moving outside of these confines, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary account of performance in film and television and examines a much neglected area in our understanding of how popular genres and performance intersect on screen.

Each chapter concentrates upon a particular genre or draws upon generic case studies in examining the significance of screen performance. Individual chapters examine contemporary film noir, horror, the biopic, drama-documentary, the western, science fiction, comedy performance in 'spoof news' programmes, the television 'sit com', and popular Bollywood films.

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"All these studies are well-written, cogent, and topical discussions of performance issues related to their genres. The images which accompany them are well chosen and interesting. Overall, Genre and Performance: Film and Television is an important addition..." - Western American Literature, Summer 2012 issue

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719079801

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: Illustrations, black & white

Contributors:

Edited by Christine Cornea

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Christine Cornea is Lecturer in Film and Television with the School of Film and Television at the University of East Anglia