Refiguring American film genres : history and theory / Nick Browne, editor.

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[1998], ©1998
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Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998], ©1998.

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xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Reusable packaging: generic products and the recycling process / Rick Altman -- Melodrama revised / Linda Williams -- World War II and the Hollywood "war film" / Thomas Schatz -- Lounge time: postwar crises and the chronotype of film noir / Vivian Sobchak -- "Democracy and burnt cork": the end of blackface, the beginning of civil rights / Michael Rogin -- Genre anxiety and racial representation in 1970s cinema / George Lipsitz -- Monster roundup: reintegrating the horror genre / David J. Russell -- "God bless juries!" / Carol J. Clover -- The genre of nature: ceremonies of innocence / Leo Braudy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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