Horror, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)
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Approaches to Popular Film (Inside Popular Film)
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The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (BFI Modern Classics)
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The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
 List Price: Price: $49.28 You Save: $0.72 (1%) DescriptionIn this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in order to examine the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy in the late 1930s and 1940s. This critical movement managed to transform the teaching and study of English through a series of essays published in journals such as the Southern Review and the Kenyon Review. Jancovich argues that the New Criticism was not an example of bourgeois individualism, as previously held, but that it sprang from a critique of modern capitalist society developed by pre-capitalist classes within the American South. In the process, he clarifies the distinctions between the aims of these three Southern poets from those of the next 'generation' of New Critics such as Cleanth Brooks, Warren and Welleck, and Wimsatt and Beardsley. He also claims that the failure on the part of most contemporary critics to identify the movement's ideological origins and aims has usually meant that these critics continue to operate within the very professional terms of reference established through the New Critical transformations of the academy.
The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media
 List Price: Price: $35.00 DescriptionHistories of science fiction often dicuss Fritz Lang's Metropolis as a classic text within the genre--yet the term "science fiction"; had not been invented at the time of the film's release. If the genre did not have a name, did it exist? Does retroactive assignment to a genre change our understanding of a film? Do films shift in meaning and status as the name of a genre changes meaning over time?These provocative questions are at the heart of this book, whose thirteen essays examine the varying constructions of genre within film, television, and other entertainment media. Collectively, the authors argue that generic labels are largely irrelevant or even detrimental to the works to which they are applied. Part One examines the meanings of genre reveals how the media are involved in the production and dissemination of generic definitions. Part Two considers specific films (or groups of films) and their relationships within various categorizations. Part Three focuses on the closely tied concepts of history and memory as they relate to the perceptions of genre.
Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (BFI Modern Classics)
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